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All Marketing Members
At the primary school
The student I taught and me
On April 1st, all my classmates went to Beijing East Road Primary School to teach the students there as volunteers. They were Grade 5 students and what we need to do was to help them review the lessons and teach them something new in English.
We got to the primary school at about 3pm. Ms. Bartell spared one or two students to each of us which meant we were responsible for the students we taught. I got a girl. She looked quiet and pure. Firstly, I asked her to read the dialogues on her book. She could read them correctly. However, like Ms. Bartell said, she sounded like a robot. Then I decided to teach her how to pronounce more naturally. After this, I helped her review the next unit she was going to learn and go over the vocabularies. Later I taught her some countries, people of the countries and their languages. It was useful that she would need them in further study of English. The last part was to let her introduce herself in English. She was quite shy so that I gave her an example of myself. I really tried to make her speak as much as possible.
That was a chance for me to learn how to communicate with younger people and how to teach them. I could understand that it was not easy to be a teacher. Teachers not only needed the ability to teach, but also had the responsibilities for students. Before I started, I felt quite upset and I could not make sure what I said was too easy or too difficult to understand. I wanted her to talk to me all in English, but I was afraid that she might not have enough vocabularies. After I knew about their class, I saw that not everyone could speak like GCA students did. From this I knew that teachers should give more chance to students to speak English in class, especially in primary school.
Besides this, I also did some volunteer work in Parents’ Meetings as a member of Marketing Team. every time there was a Parents’ Meeting, we Marketing members would have a busy time. What we needed to do was to lead the parents to the meeting room and tell them where the classrooms were. Sometimes we were required to wear suits. Parents always had a lot of questions to ask, and we often answered the same question for many times. Also, we should be ready to face parents at any time, so we did not have time to take a break and we had to stand during the whole meeting.
It was not a easy job. Parents always wanted to know more about the environment that their children were studying in. We needed to be patient enough to deal with them. In spite of this, I still learnt a lot. After several times of work, I mastered the skill of communicating with different kinds of people, especially strangers. I knew how to behave correctly in different situations and it would probably useful later in my life.
We got to the primary school at about 3pm. Ms. Bartell spared one or two students to each of us which meant we were responsible for the students we taught. I got a girl. She looked quiet and pure. Firstly, I asked her to read the dialogues on her book. She could read them correctly. However, like Ms. Bartell said, she sounded like a robot. Then I decided to teach her how to pronounce more naturally. After this, I helped her review the next unit she was going to learn and go over the vocabularies. Later I taught her some countries, people of the countries and their languages. It was useful that she would need them in further study of English. The last part was to let her introduce herself in English. She was quite shy so that I gave her an example of myself. I really tried to make her speak as much as possible.
That was a chance for me to learn how to communicate with younger people and how to teach them. I could understand that it was not easy to be a teacher. Teachers not only needed the ability to teach, but also had the responsibilities for students. Before I started, I felt quite upset and I could not make sure what I said was too easy or too difficult to understand. I wanted her to talk to me all in English, but I was afraid that she might not have enough vocabularies. After I knew about their class, I saw that not everyone could speak like GCA students did. From this I knew that teachers should give more chance to students to speak English in class, especially in primary school.
Besides this, I also did some volunteer work in Parents’ Meetings as a member of Marketing Team. every time there was a Parents’ Meeting, we Marketing members would have a busy time. What we needed to do was to lead the parents to the meeting room and tell them where the classrooms were. Sometimes we were required to wear suits. Parents always had a lot of questions to ask, and we often answered the same question for many times. Also, we should be ready to face parents at any time, so we did not have time to take a break and we had to stand during the whole meeting.
It was not a easy job. Parents always wanted to know more about the environment that their children were studying in. We needed to be patient enough to deal with them. In spite of this, I still learnt a lot. After several times of work, I mastered the skill of communicating with different kinds of people, especially strangers. I knew how to behave correctly in different situations and it would probably useful later in my life.
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