记者：梁杰

11月19日下午6⚱️♉️：00，外籍教师Ms. Dulene Cipiriano、Mr. Leck Wall🏄🏻‍♀️、Mr. Lucas Wilfong、Mr. Brett Gearing和Dr. Aviva Shimelman一起在图书馆一楼大厅参加了英语角活动⬅️。此次活动同学们围绕文化交流，对来自不同国家的外教展开了解🤦🏻‍♂️。

当同学们提及不同口音的问题时🚐，Ms. Dulene Cipiriano表示，她认为澳大利亚人和新西兰人的英语发音非常可爱，听起来让人觉得很愉悦。而英语专业的学生则更希望能在大学学习到标准英式或是美式英语发音。Mr. Lucas Wilfong对动物十分感兴趣。在他看来➰，澳大利亚和新西兰的环境很适合动物生存。他开玩笑地说🧑🏼‍🔬，在美国，防止动物意外袭击是允许人们配备私有枪支的原因之一🦹🏼。但是Mr. Lucas Wilfong对打猎不太感兴趣；如果条件允许的话，他会考虑试试，“松鼠将会成为我的第一个打猎目标。”他开心地说道🍺。

Mr. Leck Wall与同学们讨论了关于控制面部表情的问题。他认为，面部表情的控制是对自己的一种保护行为。他以自身为例，打桥牌时，即使手气不错他也会面无表情，而他的妻子则忍不住偷笑💷，这样一来反而暴露了自己。另一方面，控制面部表情也能让人在人际交往中处于平衡的位置👨🏼‍🍳。

在这次的英语角中，外籍教师纷纷真实地表达了自己对特定问题的观点及看法，同学们对他们的了解也更近了一步⛳️。

审稿人：马菁远

English Corner: Across the Ocean

By Liang Jie

On November 19th, the English Corner was held at 6: 00 p.m. on the fist floor of the library. Ms. Dulene Cipiriano, Mr. Leck Wall, Mr. Lucas Wilfong and Dr. Aviva Shimelman were the overseas teachers who attended this activity.

While the students were talking about accent, Ms. Dulene Cipiriano said that she thought Australian and Zelanian accents were very lovely. However, the English majors were more likely to learn standard British or American accent. Mr. Lucas Wilfong was interested in animals. He told a joke that in America, to defend against attacks from fierce animals was one of the reasons why people were allowed to carry private guns. What’s more, he wanted to know more about bows and arrows.

Mr. Leck Wall and students talked about the importance of controlling facial expression. In his view, controlling facial expression is a way to protect oneself. He gave an example, which is when he was playing cards, he would keep his facial expression without emotion so that people couldn’t know whether he held good cards or bad ones. But on the other hand, people should keep smiling to get along well with people .

In English Corner, overseas teachers expressed their own opinions and ideas. In this way, students could know more about teachers from the the other part of the ocean.

Proofread by Ma Jingyuan