Model 5: Proverb
Practice Makes Perfect
As is known to all, practice makes perfect. This is an accumulated experience we inherit from our forefathers, and now it is still widely applied to our daily life. It proves that the more we practice, the more likely we are going to do things perfectly.
A good case in point is the study of English. Take my neighbor, Xiao Wang, as an example. He seldom spends time in learning English. Whenever he has time, he will play games or read Chinese novels. As a result, his English is very poor and he begins to hate English now. On the contrary, I’m very interested in learning English and I spend more than five hours each day on English. I often go to the school library to read English magazines, such as Newsweek, Time, Reader’s Digest and so on. What’s more, I grasp every opportunity to talk to native English speakers: in oral English classes as well as in the scenic spots such as the Palace Museum and the Great Wall. So the natural consequence is that I have a good mastery of the language and my interest in it has grown more intense.
A lesson that we can draw from the above examples is obvious. Practice is crucial to our success not only in study, but also in our future work. All in all, practice will make a difference between success and failure. (233 words, 46/147/40)
Follow-up Exercises:
1. When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do
2. Haste Makes Waste
3. It Pays to be Honest
附：检查作文
1． 字数。
2． 是否准确完整地按要求写作。
3． 拼写。
4． 语法：主谓一致，时态一致，语态一致，指代一致，非谓语动词用法，形容词与副词的比较级和最高级等。避免语法错误，尤其是重大语法错误。
5．改正本文中的错误
Traffic has became an socially problem in big cities. Of course, have a car is a good think, but every people own a car, the streets will became too crowded. Traffic Jams occurred on the rush hours and accidents happened more often.
One way to solving this problem is develop group transportion system. Such as, we should buy more bus and built more roads. And underground trains is also a good solution.
Another way is to reduce the big city’s population.
Our country population control is the wise and necessary police. If big city people reduce, traffic will less crowded.
6．常见错误类型分析
1． 词汇用法错误
1） 冠词
（1）For an example, if I were you, I would have attended the party.
（2）On the earth, plants and animals get their energy from light and heat of the sun.
（3）There are many talented students in their class, but most promising one is John.
（4）By year 2050, there will be about 1.6 billion people in China.
（5）Neither types of reasoning seems to give students correct understanding of the subject.
2） 介词
(1) At the middle of the century...
(2) Tourists are posing with pictures, or pointing toward the peak.
(3) It was considered as a matter of course to obey the rule.
(4) Computers are relied by manufacturers for similar reasons.
(5) Blacks used the word as though they had coined it on themselves.
3） 固定搭配
(1) She left to Beijing on the first day of her vacation.
(2) This common form of sugar is derived of two plants: the sugar cane and sugar beet.
(3) In September of 1620, the Mayflower left port with 102 people on the board.
(4) Take it as granted that children will like any kind of food offered to them.
(5) He was charged for taking bribes.
4） 词类错误
a+n, adjective as complement, ad+a, object+a, ad+v, compound adjective
(1) To produce “pollution-free” cars is a scientifically impossibility.
(2) When situations became seriously, the government would interfere.
(3) The considerate hostess tried to make every guest comfortably.
(4) Before public school education was general practiced, mothers taught their children at home.
(5) It is the first time in history that man is entire free of smallpox.
5） 单词混淆
(1) The little girl inquired a good knowledge of English because she spent her childhood in Britain.
(2) The speaker rose his voice when he saw that people began to leave.
(3) The teacher contributed his success to diligence and good luck.
(4) The actress received many complements on her excellent performance.
(5) The machine is of imaginable design.
2． 语法错误
1） 时态，语态和虚拟语气
(1) Individuals belong to existing species differ from one another.
(2) He told me he will be a good tennis player the next year when we met on a train.
(3) That was the only party that I ever really enjoyed.
(4) He scarcely left the house when he heard a cry of “Help”.
(5) Suppose you are a millionaire, how would you spend the money?
2） 一致性
主谓一致，定语从句中的谓语动词与做主语的关系代词及先行词保持一致
(1) Old people complained that the young was ignorant of the past.
(2) Only the first few questions are easy; the rest is very difficult.
(3) The little girl accompanied by her parents and her teacher are leaving for NY.
(4) Statistics are a rather modern branch of mathematics.
(5) The teacher said he was the only one of the boys who were granted a scholarship.
3） 非谓语动词错误
(1) Lighthouses are set up to warn the passed ships of the dangers along the coast.
(2) Comparing with other media, TV is almost unrivalled.
(3) People cannot but feel puzzling, for they simply cannot understand why.
(4) We insist on your to leave the place before anything happens.
(5) You don’t have to remind him. He will remember returning the book sooner or later.
4） 形容词和副词的比较级和最高级
(1) The climate in the center of a city is much warmer than the suburbs.
(2) He is more friendlier than when we met him for the first time.
(3) We are more ignorant of science as people with little education.
(4) This mountain is almost three times as high than the Jingshan Hill.
(5) This recorder is more superior to that one in quality and price.
5） 排比
(1) The teachers have the same interest in good facilities as that of the students.
(2) Does the noise bother you as much as me?
(3) Jack spent his vacation going to Paris, flying to London and went to NY.
(4) While in China, the tourists enjoyed to their heart’s content the weather, the food and going to the cinema.
(5) The value of a course depends as much on its inherent interest as its use.
3． 逻辑错误
1） 肯定与否定
(1) In the past all inhabitants in a town knew each other very well, while nowadays people on the same floor even say “Hello” to each other.
(2) Many people are very conservative. They do not like and can accept new things.
(3) Computers answer telephones, read and answer letters in much more time than a person can.
2） 指代错误
(1) China is determined to continue their fight against drug-related crimes.
(2) Few of us realize how important health is until they are seriously ill.
(3) Scientists discover that sea water can be valuable. It has been suggested that their currents be used to make electricity.
(4) The world’s energy demand still continues to rise. How will that ever be possible for us to get through?
(5) The difficulty is that this heat from the sun cannot be used without some machine to turn them into power.
3） 连接词与关系词错误
(1) Carbon is widely found in many forms including both diamonds as well as coal.
(2) He smoked too many cigarettes that his lung turns black.
(3) By time you graduate from college, the problem will have been solved.
(4) The news we lost the game against Coast Rica disappointed many Chinese.
(5) No sooner had the words been spoken so he realized that he should have remained silent.
Supplementary Cartoons
该飞的不能飞，不该飞的乱飞