Xue Shengli at the entrance of the Beijing University of Technology, to find college students to play "English mahjong" (picture source: Beijing morning newspaper)
four days for a continuous period, Xue Shengli stayed at the gate of Beijing University of Technology, looking for college students to play "mahjong" (see photo). His mahjong, each card is a letter, a group of cards, a word, it became a brand. "Play this card is not a gambling, but a moral education. The bigger the word, the more the cards can be. " In order to make fun of this invention, Xue Shengli persisted in memorizing words and learning English for many years.
[b] will play mahjong back to the word [/b]
this year is only 57 years old, Xue Shengli has white hair. He set up a table for mahjong. Mahjong is very strange. "Wan, cake and strips" are all replaced by sticky sticky English letters. There is a couple of students to talk about.
when playing cards, B, A and G are equal to bag (English "schoolbag"), so long as letters can be spelled as one word, they are all in one card. "Mahjong 13, each card is a letter, a number of cards form a word, that is, one card, no matter how many letters, 2, 3, even more. You can get 12 words together, plus a pair of cards. "
Xue is quite proud of himself because he always plays cards first. He was holding a stack of cigarette paper on his hand, which was full of English words. "The word is not much, not only to the 1000 students, certainly better than me, but maybe not too familiar to the rules." The invention of
[b] originated from "English Craze" [/b]
in Xue Shengli's home, he specially produced the patent certificate of English mahjong. Xue Shengli said that in 2007, he was catching up with the "English hot", and he was not able to let it out. "One study, I found it too boring, I think I can not teach, and learn to add fun."
he took a brainwave and split the word into one letter. "Forget it, 26 letters, plus phonetic symbols, a total of 144 cards, and 136 ordinary mahjong." In fact, before "English mahjong", his "English playing cards" also received patent certification. English playing cards consist of 26 letters. Each letter has one pair, each printed in black and red, and two letters as the size of the king. It happens to be 54.
"poker or the original game for upstream play, A is the smallest, Z is the largest, and the letters are together, and more than three words are bombs, the more letters, the bigger the bomb. The more the word is, the more you can win the card. " Xue Shengli said that this can increase interest in learning English.
[b] can reverse the periodic table [/b]
in order to play the English mahjong, Xue Shengli has also regained the periodic table of chemical elements. "5 letter words, plus one element letter, are also integral cards. 4 word words plus two element letters, such as Fe (Tie Yuansu), are also integral cards. Xue Shengli has many interesting experiences in the process of
exploration. He has discovered that the new periodic table of elements is different from that of the 70s of last century. "There are more elements, and the 113 element is still vacant." When asked all the people around him, he couldn't answer it. He went to the gate of Beijing University of Chemical Technology. "A graduate student told me that the 113 element is a synthetic chemical element that has appeared for dozens of seconds, but it has disappeared, but it does exist."
Xue Shengli knows the periodic table of this element. A reporter can point out the abbreviation code of an element, and he can accurately say the corresponding element name and serial number.
[b] "want to sing but I don't know the score" [/b]
"I want to sing, but I don't know the score." Despite patent certification, Xue Shengli has no confidence in himself. He said he had remembered some words, but the pronunciation was not standard. "All the phonetic symbols would not be read, so I went to the gate of the university to make a sign of" seeking English guidance. "
for several days, Xue Shengli failed. He consulted some students who played chess with him. "Those college students are not sure." Xue Shengli said he would continue to make a challenge, hoping to find a teacher as soon as possible and teach him the standard English pronunciation. "When can I speak a few pure English, my goal is achieved." Although
is "English mahjong", but the children are much more exposed to addiction? Xue Shengli feels a little worried about it. He thinks that the original intention of inventing "English mahjong" is to teach and play and teach English. "Now for children to buy computers, it is for learning, but how many computers are learning?"
Author: Li Xianfeng