Well, Jenny, the school year is almost over. We just have two more weeks before exams. What do you plan to do this summer?
I'm going to teach English to some immigrants in the university's community service program.
That sounds interesting. Don't you need to speak a foreign language for a job like that?
No, you don't. You just have to present the language simply and give the students a chance to practice speaking.
Come to think of it, that's the way I was taught to speak Chinese. But speaking didn't help me learn to read and write Chinese.
My students won't want to read and write English, at lease not now. They are more interested in speaking.
You sound very knowledgeable about all this. How do you know so much?
I took a Teaching English as a Second Language course last year when you were in China. I've also talked with the experienced teachers quite a lot. I think I would like to be an ESL teacher when I graduate.