By Wendy Cheng

On November 11th , students who were interested in communicating in English came to the library early to begin the discussion. Mr.Aaron Richards and Mr.Dennis Bake attended the English corner.

First, Aaron let students discuss the topic of family and education in groups. During the discussion, students showed great enthusiasm in how to address their relatives. They discovered the differences between China and western countries. Often, Westerners called the first names of their relatives while the appellation system in China was quite complex. Aaron wanted to know about the one-child policy and one of the students explained to him in details.

Dennis talked about how he met and knew his wife before marriage, which made students lost in thought on the day of Double Eleven, the Chinese singles’ day. Thereafter, students talked about the status of women in marriage. Some of the students thought that the independence of married women had been weakened. However, Dennis provided students with another way of thinking: in his opinion, mental independence of women was the key to improving the status of the females.

All the students had a good time in today’s English corner.