Dai Hengze, Class 3, Senior 1, Shenzhen Xin’an Middle School Instructed by Tang Ying As we all know, English is the international language most widely used in the world today. Why should we learn English? The following are some of my points of view. First of all, English plays an important role in our daily lives. Many students may think that it is not necessary for us to learn English because we are living in China. This view is wrong. Even if we are living in China and we use Chinese in our daily lives more often than English, many signs we see in the park or public places are written in English. The imported products we want to buy in the supermarket have their English names and instructions printed on the package. The instructions of imported medicine that we want to buy at the pharmacy are all in English. If we can’t read the English instructions, how can we choose the products and medicine we need? Therefore, learning English is necessary for everyone. Additionally, English can change our way of looking at things. When we are learning English, we are learning to think in English. For example, in English, there is the passive voice because Western people often consider the result of an event so that they put the object of a sentence first as the subject. However, we Chinese usually think about who does a thing and the reasons first, so we don’t have a passive voice. Moreover, English makes our life more interesting when traveling abroad. English plays an essential role in the world. If we can communicate with other people in English, we can take trips to any country in the world to enjoy wonderful scenery as well as talking with the local people and learning their unique cultures and customs. Last but not least, English can make us more confident to face the world. As the world has become global, we meet people from different countries every day and we have to use English to communicate with each other. With the development of the internet, people from all over the world can contact via social media. These social media apps are in English. If we want to seek business opportunities or find a job in a foreign country in the future, we should be able to understand the English information online. All in all, it’s necessary for everyone to learn English well. | 