公共管理专业外语（英）课件讲义.doc

Introduction Why do we study English for Public Administration? On one hand, to learn a language is not for tests, but for using. This course will give you a chance to use English. You will have another year to read, listen, speak and write in English, which will certainly be helpful in improving your English level. On the other hand, you will learn how to read books in English and to read foreigners’ thoughts in the original language. English is a very important language that be used all around the world. Many books and important articles are written in English, especially in the field of public administration. The course will force you to read a book write by a foreign scholar in English and you will touch the author’s thought by reading the original book other than the translation. This will be helpful to your major. How to study English for Public Administration? First of all, try to learn by doing. People learn in different ways. Some people learn by doing things; other people learn by reading about things; others learn by listening to people talk about things. For our course, we’d better learn by doing, or learn by using. That means you should work hard to read in English, listen to English, speak in English, write in English, and most important, think in English. Don’t rely on the teacher. Secondly, preview and review are very, very important. There are many new words, phrases and difficult sentences in every chapter, which will be your biggest problem in the first 2 or 3 months. Teacher can’t explain all of them in the class because we should focus more on the content and ideas. So, if you want to understand the text better and catch up with teacher’s step, please do preview it well. Review will help you to grasp the important ideas of each chapter, and save you from the mud of new words and confusion of ideas. Thirdly, don’t worry about the course, and keep your self-confidences. At first glance, the text maybe very difficult, but experiences have indicate