通讯员（王雪儿）4月17日晚上，外国语学院二楼多媒体功能教室进行了一场别开生面的英语角活动。本次活动由23级翻译1班策划组织，以 “Places You Want to Visit” 为主题，参与者包括外国语学院三名外籍教师Wesley, Donyea, Thando以及来自全校的众多英语爱好者。
本次活动包括四个环节，分别是学生分享、小组讨论、互动游戏以及外教分享。
在第一个学生分享环节中，同学们还略显拘谨，外教Wesley发现后积极鼓励大家，同学们逐渐敞开心扉，气氛变得活跃起来。
小组讨论环节则将本次活动推向高潮。同学们与外教混合分组，共同设计理想旅行路线。每组需要综合考虑预算、时间、文化特色等因素，制定出最佳方案。讨论中，同学们不仅锻炼了英语表达能力，更学会了如何在国际化团队中有效沟通。
而“谁是间谍”这个游戏则巧妙地将语言训练融入趣味互动中。这个环节旨在培养同学们的快速思维和临场表达能力。游戏要求参与者通过描述纸条上的内容来互相猜测，找出隐藏的“间谍”，整个过程充满欢声笑语，进一步拉近了外教和学生间的关系。
最后的分享环节中，外教们讲述了各自旅行中的趣闻轶事。比如外教Wesley分享了自己因为疫情航班取消而进行网上教学的经历；外教Doneya则分享了自己去泰国和日本旅游的趣事，生动形象的描述加上夸张的肢体语言引得现场笑声不断。这些真实的跨文化体验不仅拓宽了学生的国际视野，更让他们对不同文化有了更直观的认识。
活动持续了两个小时，结束时许多同学仍意犹未尽。本次英语角活动增进了学生对外国文化的了解，培养了团队协作与沟通能力，更重要的是培养了学生英语交流的信心，让更多的学生勇于表达自己的观点，将英语融入日常生活中，进一步拓展课外语言实践。（审核 戴薇）
Foreign Languages Culture Festival Series Activities --- English Corner Successfully Held
（By Correspondent Wang Xue'er）At 6:30 PM on April 17, 2025, a unique English Corner event was held in the second-floor multimedia classroom of the School of Foreign Languages. Organized by Class 1 of the 2023 Translation Program, the event centered around the theme "Places You Want to Visit" and attracted participation from three foreign teachers—Wesley, Donyea, and Thando—as well as English enthusiasts from across the university.
The event featured four segments: student sharing, group discussions, interactive games, and foreign teachers' stories.
During the initial student-sharing session, participants were somewhat reserved. Noticing this, foreign teacher Wesley warmly encouraged everyone, gradually easing tensions and livening up the atmosphere.
The group discussion became the highlight of the event. Students and foreign teachers collaborated in mixed teams to design their ideal travel itineraries, factoring in budgets, time constraints, and cultural highlights. Through this exercise, students not only honed their English communication skills but also learned the nuances of teamwork in a multicultural setting.
The game "Who’s the Spy?" cleverly blended language practice with fun. Designed to sharpen quick thinking and on-the-spot expression, the game required participants to describe clues on slips of paper while deducing the hidden "spy". Laughter filled the room as the game broke the ice between students and foreign teachers.
In the final sharing session, the foreign teachers regaled the audience with travel anecdotes. Wesley recounted his experience of switching to online teaching due to a pandemic-related flight cancellation, while Donyea shared lively tales of his trips to Thailand and Japan, complete with animated gestures that had the crowd in stitches. These firsthand cross-cultural stories not only broadened students’ global perspectives but also offered vivid insights into diverse cultures.
The two-hour event left many attendees reluctant to leave. Beyond deepening students’ understanding of foreign cultures and fostering teamwork, the English Corner boosted their confidence in English communication, encouraging them to integrate language learning into daily life and explore extracurricular language practice in new ways.
(Reviewed by Dai Wei)
