IELTS Speaking Part 2 & 3 - Topic: Teachers

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Speaking Part 2 - Chủ đề Teachers

Throughout my academic life, I found and came into contact with several teachers whom I'll never forget mostly because of their personality and quality teaching. A teacher who I remember clearly was Mr Arthur who taught us History at our 8th grade.

I was about 13-14 years old then and was in eighth grade. He had an admirable personality and a different way of teaching. He was very punctual and honest and inspired us to be so. He never pressured us on studying and always told us stories from different historical events. In his classes, we never felt bored. He had a gift of making the lessons interesting and entertaining students with his stories. Much of the history I now know is because of him.

My major was Science and I have not studied history that much but whatever interest I have about history was mostly his contribution. I can still recall the stories I heard from him. He never misbehaved with any of his students and all of his students admired him very much. I still remember him because he was a good man, a wise mentor and a nice person who taught us things that we still remember.

Speaking Part 3 - Topics Teachers

1. What kind of person makes a good teacher?

First of all, the person who has a passion for teaching would naturally become a good teacher. It is true for any other profession as well. Then deep subject knowledge, patience, rhetoric power, ability to convince and argue, and good behaviour are some key points to become a good teacher. A good teacher inspires pupils and set examples for them. Finally, a person with compassion, ability to understand others’ psychology often excels as a good teacher.

2. Why people choose to become teachers?

For some people, it is their dream and passion to become a teacher. For others, it is just a job and they are teachers because they have not got any other better professions. For others, teaching is a noble profession and they never leave this profession even though they can switch their jobs. In many societies, people honour and respect those who are in the teaching profession and that is why many people choose to become teachers.

3. Do you think education will change in the future? How?

Though the core value and norm of education will always remain the same – to enlighten people, the form and system of education change over time. In the future technology would be greatly used to teach, learn and assess students in educational institutes and distance learning would be very popular among students. More subjects would be introduced and more technical and technological subjects would emerge. Practical experience in studies would be given more priority in the near future.

The traditional classroom-based education would be replaced in some places with the computer and the Internet-based education system and more students would pursue their education from foreign universities and colleges than they do now.

4. How does technology affect education?

Technology has already been adopted in many educational institutes as it makes the process of learning and teaching easier and more convenient. Technology will replace some traditional ways of teaching and would make online classes and online assessment more popular. Students can access to a vast amount of information related to their subjects through the internet and can read e-books.

The time required to take an examination and classes has greatly reduced and teachers now connect to their students via the internet. Online courses, online teaching, online registration and certification have changed the way people used to study in the past.

In my opinion, technology offers a huge flexibility and advancement in education and we have already started accepting these benefits.

5. Who do you should be responsible for teaching manners and good behaviour to young children - parents or teachers? Why?

Well, this is an interesting question. For some reason, I think family is the best place to learn good behaviours. In fact, it is the responsibility of parents to teach manners and good behaviour to their offspring. Before attending any academic institution, children spend most of their time with their parents at home. So, I think this is the best time for them to learn good manners. And the teachers are responsible to nurture the manners to be used perfectly in the real-life situation. But if we rely on teachers alone, undoubtedly the young children will learn less than they are expected.

6. What modern techniques teachers should teachers adopt to make the teaching more fun and intuitive, especially for children?

Everything is changing in this modern era and similarly, the traditional ways of teaching have lost its appeal to students. Hence, the teachers should focus on some other aspects to make teaching more fun for children. Replacing the textbooks with multimedia slides may be an interesting way. Addition of graphical images or audio-visual documentation of the text or to represent some topics or information may provide some better results in teaching. Adopting some recreational activities during the class hours may also have some good results. This way students will not feel bored, rather get interested in the classes.