Outlining Your Points

Topic sentence:All foreign students have the same difficulty--the English barrier.
A. To make an American understand and to able to understand Americans is not esy for a foreigner.
1. The words of English.
a. Using an old word which people nowadays don't use anymore and the teacher and friends couldn't understand.
b. There are a lot of words that combine to make different meanings.
c. Combined words with different meanings is the verb-and-preposition combination.
d. "to work out" and "work"
2. Pronunciation.
a. Some words that appear to be the same but have different proununciations for different meanings.
b. "conduct"
B. To understand an American also depends on his or her accent.
1. Northerners have a different accent from southerners.
C. Foreign students study in their majors.
1. They have to learn technical terms and phrases that the new technology doesn't exist in their countries.