Diary One

I am very lucky to be admitted to the class of Louis. Although it is a optional course ,I am expecting highly of it. I hope that I can get something useful about BEC through this course ,what is more ,laying a foundation for my further study on BEC. That is why I choose it.

The first lesson is coming. Louis is really a person who are good activating every one of us.

He let us speak out ,speak loudly ,which is contributing to our pour English. I think this is important to English learner .If you wants to learn English well, vocabulary and words are not far sufficient . In addition to those ,you must have bravery to speak out in public. you must speak out what you want to say to the various people that include your classmates ,your roommates, your teachers, your friends, and the foreigners .I have studied English for 9 years ,but I find I have difficulties in communicating with the other person .Maybe you can think what a bad think .It is shame to say this .

Louis is a enthusiastic man .you can prove it when he introduced himself .it was very unforgettable for us .Because it was very impressing . Then he let us introduce ourselves. I saw someone stand to introduce himself. Honestly speaking ,I was jealous of them .Because they had the bravery of which I just be lack. Many times I was intending to stand up to ask questions and answer to him ,but I was finally drawing my hand back .May be I must have a look at myself.

I think I must ask myself these questions:

Why I afraid?

Why I not stand?

Why I not ask?

Why I not put up my hands?

Why I not answer the questions?

I finally know life is short and time is swift. IF you miss the opportunities, the opportunities will miss you.. Opportunity waits no man .I think this is what I get from the first class. I know everyone must have a control of the opportunities which are laid in front of him .

I am very appreciating this chance that I can study business English. So I put my heart into it .I think I will get a lot of things and make many friends in the class. But I remember the old saying: If you want get ,you must give first .I will never forget this saying .I will give my enthusiasm, my energy, my attention , and my time into it . every one will see it .

When Louis saied it was time for class.. I found time is swift. It could prove that I was very concentrating on the class. The first lesson is always unforgettable. Because it means that there is a new thing waiting for you . I like challenge ,so I like new things. I think today is a new day for me .Tomorrow is also new day for me .The day after tomorrow is also new. As for me ,every day is new day for me .Because I always remember one thing :

let bygones be bygones.

This is my first business English lesson. I like it

Diary Two

I think I have a good night today. I saw Louis again this evening. Because it was time for business English class. I dare to say you can see a smile in his face everyday . I can guess if somebody is in a bad mood ,he will get better when he sees Louis. According to the thirteen week’ study ,I have found Louis is a vigorous man. He is full of enthusiasm, and have a lot of energies which seem that they are not used out.

Tonight Louis gave out some paper which was cut to pieces. These pieces came from a business letter. Louis had disorder these piece. Why he did that? What did he want us to do? A terriblely unsafe idea striked me. I could say for that moment I was in completely confusion. What was the next step? Louis then saied that it was a business letter which you must put them in right order with the other your group members. I had got it, but I found there was a bit difficulties for me .

On taking the pieces of the letter ,all the group were busy in putting them in right place.. I thought It was a big pity that my group first came into a big problems. We could not decide which sentence was the fires one. What was a shame thing.

When my group could not decide what to do ,I saw the other group seemed it was ready .I stood up and looked around. To my disappointment, they were also in confusion.

It was very bad time for every of us. Louis stood in the front of the classroom. He seemed very happy to see that we were in completely confusion. When he came here , had a quick look at our group’ work ,not saying any word and walking away.

Many times I wanted to ask for help ,but I withdrawed my hands. Many times I wanted to give up our pieces ,but I insisted .

After 20 minutes ,Louis told us the right answer. Some sentences we put in right place first ,but some of them were in wrong place finally. Why? I thought it is confidence that we did not have. In addition , we did not trust our partners. We waste a lot of time in debating , which finally proved that it was useless.

So I thought this was a helpful game. Every of us could profit a lot from it. I know if one want to got some achievement ,he must learn how to cooperate with the other people. If he do the big thing alone ,I can guess he will not success.

Today ,the consciousness of the group is more and more important than before. No matter where you go ,no matte what you do ,you can do without the other people. We must cultivate our consciousness of the group ,and have more and more trust on our partners. IF you can do this ,I think there is short way between you and success.

In addition ,as far as I am concerned we must not give up when the thing is not ending. There is the saying goes this: the thing will not end until you give it up .I think it is very true.

Don’t give up any thing ,if you can strive for it .Where there is a will ,there is a way ,which mean an long as you possesses a strong will ,you will certainly accomplish a task no matter how hard it is .In other words, one of words. one of the most important things to achieve success is a firm resolution. this is the case not only in our studies but also in all walks of life.

As for me , I was not a strong –will person once upon a time .But I now I must change my idea. At the beginning of my college life, I was faced with some difficulties, including studying and personal sentiment. Once I lost my heart, but I did not give up .I stood up again . With a firm resolution and after a lot of failure ,I came through these.

Diary Three

It was a unhappy night. When I heared that we must write a 2000-word diary about business English class, I found I was in in dizzy. You may don’t know what is the concept of this? Since I entered into the fuzhou university ,all the words of English I wrote have not come to this number-2000.It is a terrible thing for me .Because I didn’t think I have many things to say .Even so .I didn’t think I can express them by writing..

There will be a oral test and paper text waiting for us .I am not good at spoken English . I don’t speak English very well. May be it relates to my diligence .I don't like opening my mouth, speaking English bravely. As a result , I was poor in my spoken English .

The Learning of spoken English likes the learning of swimming. It is obvious that you can never swim if you dare not drop yourself into water. Swimming can only be learned through practice in water, which can make you get the feeling of water and make your motion correct and effective. Spoken English also likes this. You can not improve your oral English if you don't communicate wish other people. Only when you speaking English frequently can you improve your spoken English.

Except for the homework and the boring test ,I think I like the business English class in heart. Louis was good at creating a happy and humorous atmosphere. He was always making the whole class seem interesting. I like this style of his very much.. Because I didn't fall asleep in class. Maybe it can say that it is a miracle for me.

I have maked some friends with my classmate of the BEC since I went to the business English class. We have communicated some experiences about studying English since then, which have done me a great help to me.

Throughout 13-week’studying business English ,I can not say that I know business English very well ,but I dare say this period studying will lay foundation for my further studying about business English. I have learned some business letters ,some business words and some vocabularies which are use frequently in communicating in business. We completed the task that the Louis give together, and pointed out each other’ merits and deflects. We haved learn a lot by this way of improving our English level. We liked this and insisted in doing this. Maybe it also gave us a lot of funny.

Once upon a time ,I thought ,my spoken English would never improve again. But since these weeks, through reading English article loudly and fluently in business class of Louis, I have found I improve my poor oral English a little. It was on my tongue when I wanted say something in English . Now it also likes that. But I am more brave than before when comes to speaking English .I think this is my great attainment from this business class. There are a few points that I want to share with everyone who likes English and wants to improve it:

Don’t be shy to open your mouth;

Don’t want to improve your English alone, you must communicate with others;

Don’t only pay attention to the paper test;

Practices makes perfect.

This is what I want to say .Maybe it will do you a help in your improvement in your English. Finally ,let me have a hope. I hope that everyone of business English including Louis and my classmates will be happy everyday.

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　　Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"