Here is a multiple choice exercise.

---Jack, I will go to Hong Kong Disneyland with my parents next week.

---__________

A. Oh! It �s very interesting.  B. Lucky you! Enjoy yourselves! 

C. It �s a pleasure.                D. I hope I can go with you.

 

I �m not sure which answer is the best. The answer provided is B. But some of my colleagues say both B and D are right. You know, in China, when someone hears that kind of news, he or she may express his or her feeling like "I hope I can go with you." or " If I �m free, I hope I can go there, too." This is a typical way of Chinese thinking. I really don �t know how a native speaker would answer it. So I just want to ask for your help.  Which one is better?

 

Thanks!!!!! And have a nice weekend!!!!!!!!

You know, the education in China is kind of examination-oriented education, the English teaching mostly focuses on testing.  As a teacher, it �s really hard to help students develop all the four skills in English learning at the same time in class. Usually there are 55-65 students in one class. Yeah! That �s a very big one.  And every day, they just have one or two English lessons. (We have to teach the four skills wihtin 40 minutes) In order to help students to pass the exams, we have to focus on the exams. So we have to ask students to do lots of different kinds of exercises about grammars, listening and writing over and over again. BORING!   After years of training, most students can get high marks in the exams, but they can �t speak very good English or they can �t understand what others speak. This is the current situation of Chinese students in learning English.  What poor students and teachers!

I am not a native speaker but this question seems controversial.

You know manners and context is very important in dialogues.

We should be informed if it is formal or informal speech.

Option B seems suitable yet option A also seems suitable.

If I had asked this question to my Ss I am sure that some of them would have choosen A.

Going to Disneyland is an interesting event for them.(I guess this is the case for many others)

Option C may also be the right option with slight changes.

If I were you I would change this question into this:

 

 

What do you think??

But you had better ask it to native speakers.

I am a poor EFL teacher...