【正文】 is Mary speaking.B: Hi, Mary…This is a typical example of making a call in daily life. By doing this kind of practice, students will be familiar with the use of “This is…”, “Who is that?”. There is another example. A: What time is it? B: It is 3:00. Why? A: Oh, I need to go to the store. Do you want to e? B: Ok. Just a minute. I need to finish this first.After students have finished this in pairs first and a couple of pairs have performed it in front of the whole class, the teacher can ask them to perform it in different moods such as happy, sad, bored or in different role relationships such as a parent and child, husband and wife, two friends and so on. Then the actual words can be varied such as “go to the post office”or“go to the bank” instead of the“store”or “I need to find my jacket or shoes”instead of “finish this first. (Wang Qiang，2006)Gradually, students can perform some plicated dialogues, using the means of roleplay. Of course, their spoken English will be improved greatly. Encouraging Students to Ask QuestionsTeachers should often let students do more reading and ask them to ask questions with such whwords as what, when, where, which and how. Then teachers should answer the questions in details. Here is an example:John is a British writer. He married a Japanese woman, Jing. This morning, they asked an old Chinese couple, Peng and Hong to go to a bar in London. They drove up in the car of John’s. After a couple of drinks, they began to dance. Jing invited Peng and John had a dance with Hong.Student: Who is John?Teacher: He is a British writer.Student: What did he do this morning?Teacher: He invited an old Chinese couple to a bar.Student: Where is the bar?Teacher: It’s in London.Student: How did Peng and Hong go to the bar?Teacher: They drove John’s car.Students will be familiar with those basic English sentences patterns by doing this kind of practice. It is a good way to improve students’ spoken English ability by asking questions. Using PicturesPictures are invaluable in speaking activities. Appropriate pictures provide cues, situations and nonverbal aid for munication. Students can benefit a lot from using pictures in speaking activities. There are many different informationgap activities that can be designed around pictures. One mon type is to use two pictures which look identical to each other at first glance, but actually have several differences. One student gets one picture and a second student gets the other picture. Their task is to discover all the differences between the two pictures without looking at each others’ picture. In this way, they must describe the pictures in details. Therefore, it is a good way to improve spoken English ability. (Wang Qiang, 2006) Guessing What It Is Teachers can let a student stand in front of the classroom and show him or her a picture.Students: Is it an animal?Student A: Yes. Students: Is it yellow?Student A: No. Students: Can it fly?Student A: No. Students: Has it two feet?Student A: No. Students: Has it four feet?Student A: Yes.Students: Cow?Student A: No. Students: Pig?Student A: Yes.The student who stands in the front of the classroom may answer the questions, using “yes” or “no”. The first student who can guess what it is can get a gift and have a chance to choose a picture from the teacher and have a look at it. Then he or she answers the other students’ questions. If nobody can guess what the picture is, the student who is standing in the front of the classroom can tell other students what it is in English. He or she can also be given a gift and choose a picture again and the game continues to play. Students are so petitive that they would like to finish first and win. It can be clearly seen that this kind of game can draw students’ attention and participation. They can stimulate students to speak more. Moreover, they can transform a boring class into an interesting one. (Lin Yun, 2003)IV. Useful Methods for Students’ Speaking EnglishWhat teachers should do is to give students a great deal of help, but what students should do is to try their best to learn new things and knowledge. Although some students want to improve their spoken English in rural areas of Gansu province, it seems to them that it is quite hard. In the process of spoken English learning, students always focus too much on accuracy. When they focus too much on accuracy or being correct with the pronunciation of a word or a phrase, they tend to lose the flow of the language. What students should do is that you should focus more on ideas you want to express. If you can’t be understood by people around you, you can try your best to repeat and clarify. Students should remember that it is not the place and time for accuracy when you are discussing or talking with other people. (Wang Qiang, 2006) There are a lot of ways for students to improve their spoken English. Cultivating Interest in Speaking EnglishInterest is the best teacher. Students who are interested in speaking English can do better than those who are not interested in. To those who are not very interested in speaking English, they not only wait for the teacher to teach them English passively, but also often are forced to open their mouths to speak English in class. As a result, their spoken English is being poorer and poorer. Therefore, cultivating the students’ interest in speaking English is very important. There are many ways to get this goal, such as watching movies, listening to English songs and so on. English moviesA great number of young people enjoy watching movies, especially those wellknown foreign movies. In modern society, English movies are quite popular and available everywhere. To students, what they watch are just the scenaries of movies. They prefer listening to the translated lines. However, listening to English lines of movies can do good to spoken English learning. Most of the