In 2004, the Steering Committee of English Course Teaching in Higher Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education and the College Practical English Examination Committee held the "First National Practical English Speaking Competition in Higher Vocational Education". Up to this year, the competition has been successfully held for 65,438+00 sessions. Adhering to the leading direction of "pragmatism and application" in English education in higher vocational colleges, the contest takes "I learn, I speak and I succeed" as the slogan, emphasizing the comprehensive ability of contestants to solve practical business problems in the workplace in English, and showing the spirit of diligence, sunshine, unity and enterprising of contemporary higher vocational students. The contest is divided into preliminary contest (organized by relevant colleges (schools)), semi-final contest (organized by higher education authorities (education committees) of relevant provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions) and final contest (jointly organized by class committee of Ministry of Education, examination committee and higher education press). It is the only language competition in the higher vocational group of the National Vocational College Skills Competition, which is highly valued by the national vocational colleges.
1 Player's Choice
The First National Practical Oral English Competition for Higher Vocational Colleges attracts millions of teachers and students from all over the country every year. The competition is fierce, and the selection of contestants in the competition should not be rushed.
The selection of team members should follow the principle of early detection and early training, which is the result of the cooperation of the whole teaching team. From the beginning of the new semester, through a period of teaching observation, we will cultivate students' fluent pronunciation and intonation, and give them more oral English feedback from teachers in various subjects step by step. Then, through the English competition in the second classroom and the preliminary contest of this competition, the players with correct pronunciation and intonation, quick response, English listening and speaking ability, adaptability, logical thinking ability and strong appeal on the spot are selected.
2 counselors should have the conditions
As we all know, the key factor to win any competition is not only the players, but also the instructors. Their comprehensive quality and ability directly affect the results of the competition. First of all, the teacher should be an expert and have outstanding professional ability, which means that the comprehensive ability of English, especially listening and speaking ability, is leading. It goes without saying that if the instructor's English communication ability is not strong, it is impossible to teach students oral expression skills. Secondly, the mentor is also a competitor. Although students' English ability and comprehensive quality are very important, it is difficult for them to win by themselves because they have no competition experience and don't know much about the process, problems and key points of the competition. So the competition is also a mentor's competition. The students on the stage are tit for tat, and the audience is the secret contest of the tutor. Teachers must have a positive working attitude and a high sense of responsibility. The instructor should guide the students to participate in the competition with a serious work attitude, instead of just giving them some information to see and perfunctory. Third, the instructor should be a designer. He should study the competition documents carefully, grasp the spirit of the competition, and understand the procedures of the preliminary, semi-finals, semi-finals and finals. The author also purchased the book "Selected Topics of the National Practical Oral English Contest in Higher Vocational Colleges", downloaded the contest simulation questions and the videos of the previous years from the Internet, summarized the contest questions, discussed the rules and main points of the contest questions, formulated the corresponding preparation strategies, and prepared relevant counseling materials for the contest. After the teacher prepares his homework, he negotiates with the players selected in the preliminary round and formulates the tutoring plan and timetable for participating in the semi-finals. It is necessary to clarify the content and expected goal of each tutorial, and the materials after each tutorial should be sorted out and reviewed for the use of students after returning. Also, if the instructor is a leader, he should be forward-looking, insightful and able to sum up. It is necessary to predict social hot issues, and students' simulation can keenly find students' shortcomings and deficiencies and provide corresponding repair strategies. Finally, the instructor had better be an assistant. Students should be given some guidance in body language, dress and makeup.
3 problem guidance strategy
The content of the contest is what the contestants may be involved in communicating with foreigners and doing business in the future, which is very practical. In order to make the topic more practical, from the fifth session, the reading part was cancelled and the "debate" was added in the final. So far, the semi-final competition includes three competition links: workplace description, situational communication and workplace testing, among which workplace testing is a new link in the semi-final of this competition on 20 14. The final includes three competition links: workplace description, situational communication and impromptu debate.
3. 1 Coping Strategies of Job Description
The topics of the bulletin are mainly charts, covering a wide range of topics, including economy, politics, culture, society, life and population. First of all, the instructor should classify the charts, which usually include pie charts, bar charts and line charts. A chart mainly explains a fact or phenomenon. Explain the facts or changes of a certain thing or phenomenon by explaining, analyzing and comparing the specific data reflected in the chart, and put forward conclusions or opinions. The answer is usually divided into the following steps: first, determine its theme through the information given by the chart and the analysis of the chart. It is usually expressed in a fixed sentence pattern, such as "As shown in the bar chart, the number of people below the poverty line dropped sharply between 1978 and 1997". Second, by comparing and analyzing the data in the chart, find out the relationship between the information in the chart and describe it according to the theme, not one by one. Fixed expressions such as composition, ranking, comparison, trend description, extreme value, numerical value and divisor should be used in the description. Third, we should pay attention to the diversity and logic of expression when describing. Diversity means that the same sentence pattern should be described by various words, phrases and sentence patterns. For example, you can use the expression "increase/rise/rise/soar/climb/climb/upgrade", which is neither boring nor shows your profound knowledge of English. Logic means that descriptions should be organized, and contestants should use words such as "first, second, last but not least" to effectively connect various classified descriptions and reflect their clear ideas. Finally, at the end of the description, we should look at the essence through the phenomenon, find out the problem, put forward the solution to the problem, or express our own views and contact current events.