References：

　　Appendix A: The methods for problem analysis

　　The analytic method:

　　Some of my students always only recite the dialogue, and they don’t know how to extend it. On the contrary, the others do it very well, this make me think a lot:

　　1 .why anybody don’t know to extend while others know?

　　2 .who are the students that know and who are not know?

　　Moreover, my students is in contrast with my colleagues’ students, this prompted me to make a chain of reflections.

　　What about some of my colleagues’ students? It is also the case that they always recite the dialogue. If so, then my problem is not clearly, through the above analysis I realized that my problem is caused by misunderstanding the meaning and recite the dialogue.

　　Brainstorming:

　　I discuss the problem with my students and with my colleagues.

　　Interview:

　　I interview some of my students and asked them why they don’t want to speak, I found some of them are not interested in it. Some of them are very shy and the dare not to speak, some of them are afraid of making mistake and laughed by others. so they only want to recite it.

　　Appendix B: Teaching notes

　　Week 1:

　　Dates: Tuesday, May 3, 2005 8:00—8:50 class 1

　　Today’s objectives: to practice using useful expression of the “whether”

　　Teaching methods: pairs

　　Order of doing things:

　　The teacher let the students discuss a topic, the students discuss it as possible as they can. They should follow 3 steps:

　　Step 1:

　　1. The teacher divided them into six groups.

　　2. The teacher gave them topic-the weather.

　　3. The teacher gave them some vocabularies that related to it.

　　Step 2: The teacher gave them 20 minutes and let them begin. At this time, the teacher can participate in it, he or she also can walk around the classroom and prompt them.

　　Step 3: The teacher can ask someone to speak it out loudly before the blackboard.

　　Homework: Do some additional exercises.

　　Week 2:

　　Dates: Tuesday, May 10 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　Today’s objectives: To practice the students’ retelling skill.

　　Teaching methods:

　　Step 1: The teacher gave a text to the students, and ask them to read it loudly several times.

　　Step 2: During the time of reading. The students should memorize some key points, for example, time, place, people and so on.

　　Step 3: After reading, The teacher should ask them several questions that related closely to the text.

　　Step 4: The teacher should ask someone to retell the text before class, they should say some main idea of the text, not the whole text.

　　Homework: Do some exercise that related to the text.

　　Week 3:

　　Dates: Tuesday, May 17 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　Today’s objectives: Let the students imitate the dialogue.

　　Teaching methods: Listening and role-play.

　　Step 1: The teacher divided the students into pairs.

　　Step 2: The teacher make the tape, and let them to listen.

　　Step 3: The teacher ask several pair to make a role-play before the class.

　　Week 3:

　　Dates: Tuesday, May 24 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　Today’s objectives: Create the students’ imagination and practice oral English.

　　Teaching methods:

　　Step 1: The teacher show a big picture about a city to the students.

　　Step 2: The teacher ask the students to create their imagination and say something about it as more as possible.

　　Step 3: The teacher asked someone to speak it out before the class.

　　Appendix C: Diaries

　　Week 1:

　　Dates: Tuesday, May 31 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　This class, when I told that they would discuss a tohttps://p.9136.com/28e more and more actively.

　　Week 2:

　　Dates: Tuesday, June 7 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　This class I ask them to retell a text, I am very glad that the students could read the text loudly, even the several students that aren’t good at English, when I asked them to retell the text, they were very active one by one , even if they make some mistakes, but I thought it already enough.

　　Week 3:

　　Dates: Tuesday, June 14 ,2005 8:00—8:50 Class: 1

　　I am very happy that my students become more and more active in my oral English, This class I summarized several mistakes that they made in the last class, and asked them to avoid them in the future, They listened very carefully. This class I told them to play a role-play, and exchanged the roles, They all felt very interesting, when I asked them to play before class, they were very active, especially the several students that they were often afraid of oral English, I thought this is a great progress.