System: Best School Development
Chapter 16: English Problems (2)
If you create a statistic among students, which lessons do you like best?
So it's the girls who get first place in maths, and so do the boys but they all don't want to learn English.
[System: Open class challenge! 】
Contents of the challenge: The atmosphere of learning in the classroom is very bad, and students are very hostile to learning English. Try to change their thinking.
Challenge prize: an English learning tool (can be used to play listening and teach pronunciation).
Seeing the three boys in the class hating English, Handi wanted to have a little laugh. But he also realized this was not a simple matter, he had to take it seriously and improve their thinking.
Ideological lessons are the first among student learning. There are problems in thinking and learning inactivity. It is said that interest is the best teacher for students. Once a student has no interest in a particular subject and has a resistance mentality, then his learning of these subjects will undoubtedly be bad.
Handi touched his chin, thinking even if the students were not interested in English lessons, they had to correct their dislike of English, at least achieve something normal to learn English.
Handi looked at them and asked, "Well, since you don't like learning English, then each of you can give me the reason. Tell me, why don't you like it?"
Adam was the first to stand up and said excitedly: "We are Indonesian, we speak Indonesian. Why should we learn English? It was outsiders in the past who colonized our country, occupied our land and killed our citizens, but today we have to learn their language. "
"Well, I can hear the simple patriotism of Adam's reason is so good. Yes, we are Indonesian. We speak Indonesian and write Indonesian characters. We were born in this beloved homeland and raised here. Why should we learn English? wh why? "Handi first asserts Adam's youthful and energetic patriotism, and then goes on," Does learning English mean being unpatriotic? "
"Obviously no!" Handi said, "If learning English is not patriotic, then we betray almost every day. Wh why? Electricity was invented by Westerners, light bulbs were invented by Westerners, and the textbooks in your hands are now also made by Westerners. They created machines and printed knowledge in textbooks, except for Indonesian, Indonesian history, and moral character. Almost all of the rest was created by Westerners. Today, all kinds of high-tech inventions are almost all created by Westerners. So far, American technology has still led us for at least two decades. Do you know why? "
The five children did not speak.
"That's because we've been slackers for a while. like a turtle and a rabbit. We are rabbits. We sleep for a long time. When we woke up, we found the tortoise had built the car, and then the Tortoise casually waved his hand in the car. We can only see it. "Handi glanced at Adam." Student Adam also mentioned that outsiders had colonized us before. Indonesians struggle with blood and sweat tirelessly to fight for independence. This will be in your history textbook for the second year of Junior High. You'll learn everything. Butwhy? Why were we colonized at that time, instead of living in peace or were we occupying them? "
Nurul lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Because we're retarded."
"Yes, that's right, it's because we're behind! We're beaten if we stay behind the others!" Said Handi.
"Why! Why should they colonize it when we're left behind?" Adam asked, standing in disbelief.
“Have you learned the phrase called 'The strong bully the weak'?” Handi saw that everyone shook his head and continued, “This expression means they have the power to colonize us and harness that power to occupy our homeland and take away our treasure that is our natural resources. "
“Why?”The students did not understand the truth and continued to ask questions.
"Because we don't have the ability to protect these treasures and we don't know how to use them! At that time, Indonesia was like a man with treasures in his body, with vast and abundant land and resources, but unable to stand empty-handed. So the Dutch came to colonize us. "
Handi spoke from the podium, and the students below listened excitedly.
"At that time, in 1595 when Cornelis de Houtman led a fleet of 4 ships to the archipelago. The voyage took the Dutch route – West Coast of Africa – Cape of Good Hope – Indian Ocean – Sunda Strait – Banten, Then why did they succeed in occupying Indonesia? Because they have technology. "
Handi gulped down water.
"Dutch slapped the man, not only surprising the man, but also taking over a large amount of his natural wealth. Then they discover that the man is really rich, so rich that everyone is greedy. The wealth that they had never seen in the past ten years, the news had finally leaked out, so everyone wanted to take advantage of it, so they swarmed in, once or twice ... people continue to rebel, but because there are too many differences, it is difficult to improve the situation, and this creates what creates Indonesia. "The past history gives us something important. One of the most famous movements is the Westernization Movement. What is the slogan of the Westernization Movement?" Ask Handi.
“I know, guru.” Adam raised his hand and said, “Learn from outsiders to develop our skills.”
The five children had serious facial expressions, although the information was up to the mountains, they also knew how much news about Iraq, it might not be clear to them.
"But we are still lagging behind the Western countries. We need to keep learning from them and catching up with them to ensure that we won't miss out too far, and won't accept humiliation and beatings like we've experienced in the past." Handi said, "So this country requires that we learn English, so that we can learn from the West and strengthen ourselves better."
“Then can we learn skills from the West without learning English?” Adam asked.
"No." Handi said unequivocally, "Western countries have been firmly occupying world-wide dominance since the industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution was Britain, and the second industrial revolution was the United States at the intermediate and late stages. They are all English-speaking countries, and now the third industrial revolution, the information technology revolution is still led by the United States. In the modern two hundred years, the British and American countries have firmly grasped advanced scientific theories and technologies, and built on this basis Physical systems, chemical systems, information network systems, etc. Everything is based on English. You guys can't speak English? Sorry, they won't let you play. "
Handi looked at the Word: "What do you want to do in the future? Make a lot of money?"
"Yes, that's the most this thing I do."
Handi smiled: "The most profitable is finance. The international financial system is defined by the United States. All knowledge of microeconomics, financial system frameworks, and legal contracts using English. They make the rules. You can't speak English. You will only be played to death in international confrontations. "
Then Handi looked at Adam again: "What about you? What do you want to do?"
Adam scratched his head: "I .. I don't know, I .. I wanted to be a scientist before."
"Scientists? How can you be a scientist if you can't speak English? Especially physicists. Both the theory of gravity and relativity were put forward by Western countries. Based on this, they built a physics framework that was almost impossible to overthrow. Newly studied theories were also put forward by Western countries. If you don't know English, you won't be able to understand these theories. If you don't know English, you won't be able to publish a paper. You won't get international recognition and you won't be able to participate.
Handi continued: "What I just said is all about the macro aspect, which is why the country wants us to learn English. English is almost a universal language in the world. If you go to Japan, Korea, France, you may not know Japanese, Korean, French, but it's okay. It is enough for you to know English, as almost the whole world is learning English, and English can allow people from all over the world to communicate easily.Personally, if you don't learn English, you can't pass the high school entrance exam. "
Handi's statement almost dispelled the minds of these children who did not want to learn English.
"Teacher, what are you saying, are Western countries so good? Are we bad?" Caca asked carefully.
"Of course not. Western countries are indeed strong, as they have taken the opportunity to develop for more than two hundred years, and their economic development has created a strong one in all aspects. And we're not bad, or even stronger. Our country is new and in just a few short years. Within ten years, it had overtaken the development of other countries except the United States, and even surpassed it in some places. What is stronger? "Handi pretends to be mysterious.
"What's that?"
The children looked at me curiously.
"Our resurrection is a peaceful awakening, and our development is a peaceful development. The rise of Western countries was accompanied by aggression, plunder and war. Only our resurrection has taken off peacefully. Peaceful increase is much more difficult than the resurrection of war, but this is what we do, This is us. What do we rely on? It's learning. "
Handi smiled meaningfully: "The future can be expected. It is clear that the future of our Indonesia is brighter than that of western countries, and our future will be brighter. It's only a matter of time before we surpass them. The key to going beyond them is learning from them. "
[Congratulations! Challenge succeeded! 】
Handi's education nearly cost half the class time, but these words turn the yellow light on children's heads into a green light, changing their hostility and prejudice towards English subjects, the report said, and change their minds.
Handi felt the need to swap half the class time for their change of thinking. And I got an English learning tool, which is a good helper for English language teaching.
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