March 12, 2011 Dear Paul, Thank you for inviting me to your cousin Graham’s wedding this June, but I have to look after my sister during that time, because she is going to hospital for knee surgery the week before. Please show my sincere apology and best wishes to Graham. Thank you again and hope you have a good time. Yours, Alice How to improve our Spoken English With the policy of opening to the outside, our nation is setting off an upsurge of learning English. More and more people have realized the significance of English, especially spoken English. However, improving our spoken English is not quite an easy thing. Here are some specific steps of improving our spoken English. The first step is imitation. We can listen to the English tapes, see films or load down some sound carrier to follow. We’d better imitate as often as possible and pay attention to the intonation and the pronunciation. In this way, we can not only improve our phonetics, but also develop a sense of English. The second step is reading. We can read all kinds of books, English books are better, to expand our knowledge, so that when we communicate with others we can use the material in our mind. What’s more, reading a lot can help us to enlarge our vocabulary. The last step is Practising. For instance, we can take the chances to communicate with foreigners, because foreigners are best teachers of spoken English. Besides, telling English stories or translating orally is OK. In a word, practice as often as possible. Such are the steps of improving spoken English, if you do as the above step by step, then stick to it, you will success. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/39b69124192e45361066f59d.html