4月2日晚上七点半，第四期英语角在7楼智慧书馆举行，由连建峰老师指导、马拉西亚学生颜洁和佳璇共同主持，共10余名同学参与。本期主题是“Direct and Indirect Communication”，（直接与间接交流）。

在开场热身阶段，大家用英语进行了简单的自我介绍，紧接着老师引入语言交流的重要性，介绍到交流方式分为直接和间接。

主持人让同学讨论自己在交流的时候是属于哪一类，并解释为什么。同时，举例说明在什么情况下需要直接交流，在什么情况下间接交流比较合适。老师提出了几个问题：如果听不懂对方的意思，你会怎么做？别人说话太直接伤到你了，你会怎么做？在听取了同学们的讨论后，老师总结了间接交流和直接交流的优缺点。

接下来是一个有趣的游戏互动环节：英语版的我比你猜。最后则是自由提问和讨论环节。

问题讨论

 Direct and Indirect Communication

1. Do you feel that you are a direct communicator or an indirect communicator? Give an example.
2. Who do you feel you can communicate directly with and who do you feel you should communicate indirectly with? 
3. In the following situations, is direct communication or indirect communication more effective? Why? 
a) Asking a favor 
b) Breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend 
c) Telling your teacher you didn’t do your homework 
d) Firing an employee 
4. If someone speak sth too directly, what would you feel, how to deal with it? 
5. If someone is communicating with you indirectly and you don’t understand the message they are trying to tell you, how do you deal with the situation?

※advantages and disadvantages

Challenge sections: try to give a speech based on the mentioned questions above.

错过本期英语角的同学不要着急，下一期的英语角已经在筹备中啦！我们会放出预告哦。同时，我们也向全校老师和马来西亚的英语爱好者发出征集令，邀请你们来参加教师版的英语角，欢迎大家踊跃报名！