中小学英语教学的目的是培养学生一定的听、说、读、写、译的能力。但是“五会”不是一下子就能做到的,对初学者来说,要善于抓住其中的主要矛盾,这就是“听、说”的训练。有的同志认为,既然我们要以培养学生的阅读和自学能力为主,何必要花那么大力量在听说上,不如在读写上多下些功夫,可能效果会更快更好些。诚然,有些同 The purpose of English teaching in primary and secondary schools is to cultivate students' abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. However, the “five organizations” can not do it all at once. For beginners, they must be good at grasping the major contradictions. This is the training of “listening and speaking.” Some comrades believe that since we must focus on cultivating students' ability to read and self-learning, why should we spend so much effort in listening and speaking? We should not do more to read and write. It may be faster and better. True, there are some