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ADD A MOVIE

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD A MOVIE TO THE FREE CHOICE ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY, READ THE FOLLOWING:

ABOUT THE LIBRARY

This collection of movies is owned and maintained by the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Library on the library’s intranet, available only on computers with permission to utilize the university intranet. The library is a 2nd [...]

What Students are Saying

STUDENTS OF HOLISTIC ENGLISH ARE WELCOME TO POST AFTER YOUR FINAL EXAM IS FINISHED AND NOT BEFORE.

Xinyang Agricultural College

“Our new spoken classroom at the school 2-302. It’s different from other classroom. New Oral indeed different from the previous classroom, very English atmosphere. We like it.” Venus Class: 06-business 1 NO: 067013119

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TEACH WITH MOVIES

Teach With Movies

China uses movies to teach English. Well, almost. Universities throughout China use movie clips shown in the classroom during class time. The short clips are repeated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the students have memorized certain chunks of language. Yes, movie clips are used for language learning cum memorization. Students [...]

WALK THE LINE

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

What did the man in black teach you?

RETIRE

Maybe it is time to seriously think about retiring.

For the past 9 years I have tried my best to not only assist my students in improving their English, I have attempted to lead university administrators toward creating an English speaking environment.

No matter what I do, they just refuse to get it. No matter [...]

MYSTERY

ENGLISH TODAY, DECEMBER 2010, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS pg. 53 China’s English mystery – the views of a China ‘foreign expert’

MARTIN WOLFF

A hard-hitting opinion piece from an English teacher in China

Introduction

The mysteries of exotic China arise not only from its voluntary isolation from the modern world during some of the most formative [...]

NOT WITHOUT

Western conflicts with Muslim culture. An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

What did you learn from this cross-cultural story?

4 GREAT TRUTHS

4 Great Truths

IN THE BEGINNING

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

You can learn a language for a lifetime and never be able to use it for its communicative purpose. You can communicate in a language without ever learning it. Foreign students who come to China to learn Mandarin are often fluent within [...]

GOALS

Holistic English Goals

In the Holistic English Program we do NOT teach English language or English culture.

We facilitate English communication at whatever level the students find themselves capable. There is no individual mandatory accomplishment level to be obtained. In other words, the academic pressure is completely off.

The goals of Holistic English, in their [...]

China Movies

Eat a Bowl of Tea Farewell My Concubine Great Wall Iron and Silk Joy Luck Club Sand Pebbles Shanghai Express Shanghai Lady Shanghai Noon Tai Pan The Last Emperor White Countess