Chapter 46: Why don't you come and talk
The next day, Yao Yi went out early in the morning and walked to Qunying Street about 8 o'clock, but on both sides of the street, students of different heights and clothes could be seen walking into Shangyang English teaching building one after another, most of the students were sleepy.
It’s really pitiful to think about it. These children only have to go to school to attend morning reading on weekends every week, but they still have to climb out of the warm bed early in the morning and go around in cram schools in various subjects.
In fact, parents may not understand the principle that too much is not enough, but no one dares to let their children stay at home to rest when all their children are taking tutoring.
As for whether the child can bear it?
Others can bear it, why can’t you bear it? Now that you can’t bear it, what will happen if you grow up?
"Oh!" Yao Yi shook her head gently, throwing all the disturbing thoughts and sleepiness out of her head, and strengthening her determination to do something for these children.
With one's own strength, it cannot change the social atmosphere or the parents' ideas, but it may be able to change the teaching methods of training institutions so that those students who are not good at rote memorization can easily learn English well.
Getting up early is a good habit, and the premise is to go to bed early. Let students finish memorizing words early. Wouldn’t they go to bed early?
With this idea in mind, Yao Yi followed the class schedule to find the classroom for the first class today, sat in the last row of the classroom waiting to listen.
Yesterday, Principal Li said that generally speaking, on the premise of completing his job, the assistant teacher can attend courses and learn experiences of other lecturers.
If Yao Yi wants to use deduction as a basis for sorting out a word textbook, he must first understand the overall level of the students. If he can't get into the public school classroom, he can only start by listening to tutoring courses for each grade.
At half past eight, the ringtone rang, and a male teacher with Mediterranean hairstyle entered the classroom on time. The students shouted "Teacher Wei" together, but did not stand up.
After standing on the podium, Teacher Wei glanced around and finally fell on Yao Yi.
Yao Yi was about to report his identity, but he pointed to the student next to him and said, "Today I will talk about the papers, share them with the new ones next to you. During the break, I will take the papers for him to go to the copy shop next door to copy."
Is he treating himself as a transfer student? Yao Yi blinked and didn't say anything, and planned to explain after class.
"I have said this many times. I'm afraid you won't remember it, so I'll say it again. The college entrance examination will be in June next year, but I believe you know what your English level is. Time is so tight that I can't finish it from scratch. The best way now is to memorize the test papers. So if you don't want to fail the college entrance examination, don't complain about how hard it is to learn English." Teacher Wei finished slowly and took out a simulation paper marked with standard answers, "Come on, start with the single choice. Can I speak to memorize!"
With a command, the students spoke one after another, and memorized the original sentences composed of the correct answers as if they were memorizing ancient poems, which made Yao Yi unable to touch her tongue.
Memorize the test paper?
What is this high-end operation?
Is it a weird product of exam-oriented education, or is it a unique trick to improve scores?
While concealing the reciting student, Yao Yi whispered to the students beside him: "Do you usually memorize the test paper?"
"Yes, I'll recite two pieces every week." The boy looked helpless, and the pen in his hand was spinning like a windmill.
"I've memorized the entire paper?"
"My single-choice cloze, memorize reading comprehension, correct mistakes, write dictation, copy papers if you fail to check the test." The boy looked at Yao Yi with sympathy and said with a wry smile, "If I were you, hurry up and transfer to class. Wait until your parents are brainwashed by Wei Tuzi, and they can't escape even if they want to."
After learning English for so many years, it was the first time I heard about the method of memorizing the paper and copying the paper. Yao Yi couldn't help asking: "Why do you need to memorize the paper? Did Teacher Wei say it?"
"Cultivate a sense of language. He said that we can't learn knowledge points even if we talk about knowledge points. It's better to memorize real questions and simulated papers. Anyway, the questions are all tested every year. After memorizing them for a long time, I feel that you can choose the right one. Damn, I want me to say that if you have time to memorize the paper, wouldn't it be better to use them to explain knowledge points?"
Speaking of this, the boy suddenly sighed and shook his head to overturn his statement: "But what Wei Tuzi said is right. We don't usually study hard. We really teach us knowledge points like teachers in school. We can't learn them, so we should just memorize the test papers."
"Is it useful to memorize the test paper?" Yao Yi felt that her understanding of English learning had been refreshed.
"Who knows, maybe it's useful. I have memorized it for three months, and the scores of single choice and gesticking have increased a lot, but the reading comprehension is still the same." After the boy said that, he looked up and saw Teacher Wei staring at him. His neck shrank so much that he obediently recited the gesticking short essay.
Listening to the students reciting the text like chanting scriptures, he sat for most of the class without gains. Yao Yi finally discovered something before get out of class was over.
When talking about the correction of a certain verb-changing noun in the essay correction, Teacher Wei patted the paper on the podium and said, "This change of name requires exams every year to correct mistakes. You just did the questions that give away points. After this test, there are less than five correct answers. I really don't know how you learned it!"
The boy sitting next to Yao Yi did not get this "score question" and muttered depressedly: "After memorizing so many papers, who doesn't know whether to change the name, what's the use, what can I do if I can't remember the form of nouns?"
Yao Yi glanced at the test paper and saw that the modified verb was "activate". He couldn't help but feel surprised: "Is this necessary to remember?"
"How do you know what its noun form is if you don't remember?"
The boy rolled his eyes, and Yao Yi seemed to see the words "Favority degree-1" on his face.
"Your teacher has never taught you that any verb that ends with ate as the suffix, is it a noun form if you change it to e?
"Is there such a statement?" The boy was stunned, "Is it true or false?"
Yao Yi asked back: "What is the noun for educate?"
"education." The boy blurted out.
“Dominate?”
“domination.”
“create?”
“creation.”
“donate?”
"Donation, damn?" The boy was dumbfounded, and the water pen rotating between his fingers flew over three desks and landed on the forehead of another classmate.
"You two!" Teacher Wei slapped the table again, "I want to talk out!"
The boy seemed to have never heard of it, and asked Yao Yi with joy as if he had discovered a new world: "No, all the words at the end of ate are changed like this? Change e to ion as a noun? What suffix did you just say? Verb suffix?"
"I'm talking about you two! I'm still talking! You're talking about me? Why don't you come up and talk about it?"
Maybe it was because he felt that his majesty was challenged, and Teacher Wei was angry and questioned him but still couldn't help but throw out a small piece of chalk.
The chalk drew an ugly arc in the air, and it happened to fall on Yao Yi.
Looking down at the shallow chalk prints on his chest, Yao Yi, who was planning to apologize, changed her mind, patted her clothes, got up and left her seat.
Chapter completed!