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Beijing English teacher wants to buy Obama
speeches
Tuesday July 10, 2012 08:58:24 PM,
IANS
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Beijing: An English
teacher in the Chinese capital has written to US President Barack
Obama to ask for permission to use his speeches in his English
lessons.
Qu Gang, founder of a private English training institute in
Beijing, intends to buy the copyright of Obama's speeches and is
asking the president to name his price, the Shanghai Daily
reported Tuesday.
People have praised the teacher's innovative teaching methods, but
there has also been criticism of the move as a shameless promotion
of his institute.
The teacher said he posted the letter to Obama last week.
"We sincerely hope to be authorised by you (Obama) to use the
content of your speech in our commercial English teaching
activities. If there is any expense for the speech, we'd like to
buy it according to the situation," the letter says.
Qu told the Shanghai Daily he expected Obama would charge little
for the authorisation considering it would be used to support
English education.
He said a sum of less than 200,000 yuan ($31,400) would be
acceptable to him.
Qu introduced his so-called "presidential-style" English in his
institute two years ago.
Students are taught to read presidential speeches out loud and
imitate Obama's modulation.
Qu said Chinese were usually very shy to speak out and the
president's eloquent speeches helped students build confidence
quickly.
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