36. During the past year,Professor Smith has madegreat contributions to theimprovement of Englishteaching quality of our school.He has brought to us not onlyeffective teaching methodsbut also new ideas of how tobalance the learning ofwritten English and that ofspoken English. It' S obviousthat the Englishcommunicative abilities of ourstudents have improved agreat deal as a result ofProfessor Smith' s effort.