Analysis of the teaching activities of Miss Lan (my favorite English teacher in high school) when

she was the English teacher of our sophomore class

⭐Background
(1) Content of the college entrance examination assessment
◆ Question type👇
※Speaking (Repeating a passage, listening to a dialogue and answering questions, summarizing and
retelling a story)
※Listening (similar to TOEIC listening)
*Complete fill-in-the-blank (1 long text with 10 blanks, choose the correct answer from 4 options)
※Reading comprehension (4 articles, 5 questions each)
Writing (one small essay of about 100 words, one large essay of 250-300 words)
◆The percentage of test points 👇
Speaking 15%
Listening 25%
Language comprehension 30%
Grammar + Vocabulary 30%
2）Key classes and the goals of key classes
Key classes: High school is divided into arts and science classes, a total of 10 arts classes and 20
science classes, each with only one key class (respectively, composed of the top 50 students in the
grade ranking)
The goal of the focus class: to achieve 80% to 90% of the test scores in each subject as far as possible,
and to get into a key university.

⭐Analysis of the focus and characteristics of the teaching method (compared with traditional
teaching methods)

　 Traditional Tea Student reaction Miss Lan Student reaction

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Method

Content（F Review the Take notes, listen carefully, don't ask Every two classes Interested in the topic itself, but
ocus） words and many questions (because the teacher will had 10 to 20 most of the group couldn't talk
grammar from explain which are the key points and minutes of group directly in English
the previous which questions will be tested, and English
unit students accept them all) conversation
practice time on a
 variety of topics
(e.g. if the end of
the world in 2012
were real, what
would you do on the
last day; what do
you think about
LGBT, etc.)

Explain the Introduce us to word Some students began to build

words and roots and affixes vocabulary in this way, but
grammar of the instead of rote others found the original way
unit memorization of less troublesome
words

Increase class time Do the questions carefully and

for practicing write the essay carefully
reading
comprehension and
writing，get
students thinking
about how to reflect
their own ideas and
logic in their writing

One or two episodes Students were happy to have

of Friends are classroom relaxation time, but
Explanation of
shown in class each did not discuss the video content
recent exams'
week after class and did not make use
question types
of the authentic English they
heard in the video

Feature English classes The independent oral practice is oriented There was little Most students feel puzzled and
have zero towards the repetition of passages rather grammar uncertain
speaking than the other two types of questions that explanation in the
practice time require a certain level of language class because the
because organization. teacher advocated
teachers immersion and
usually just let wanted us to
students understand the text
squeeze in their from a native
own practice in speaker's
study hall perspective

Writing Writing tends to be patterned Focus on Inspired some students

exercises in understanding
English classes English as a
also account language
for a very small itself（make
percentage, acquaintance &KH)
writing ideas
are rarely
guided, and
teachers
usually only
 correct
grammatical
errors, wording
errors, etc.,
without asking
students to
understand the
core of the
writing (KT)

⭐Results
After one semester, the class's average English score dropped, and Miss Lan was
transferred out of our class.Although it did not improve the scores of the whole class in the
short term, for me, her teaching method opened my eyes to think about what it means to
learn a language. I think she made us appreciate the true beauty of language.

⭐My Reflections
One of the shortcomings of Miss Lan's teaching method is that she does not consider the different
needs of different students, in fact, not every student will like to experience the charm of learning the
language, maybe English is just a subject that they have to take, their goal is only to get high marks;
another is that her teaching method is not very adaptable to summative assessment, it is also difficult
to cope with the tension caused by time。

交往了快两年，他在日语学校也学得差不多了，最多也就再上 2 个学期。一则他不一定有信心
能在日本找到自己诚心如意的工作，二则两个人都有去其他国家读研的想法，他也曾表示要么
一起去中国，要么一起去其他可以一起读研的地方，三则因为她的工作原因而无法继续同居的
两个人都还挺怀念一起住的日子。在上个冬天，他们决定一起规划接下来的一年要往哪个方向
走。

她提议找个下午坐下来，两个人一起头脑风暴一下，提议了两三次，他都嘴上答应着，却很快
就忘了有这回事。终于她不高兴了，让他定下一个周六来讨论。毕竟这是涉及两个人接下来大
方向该怎么走的一件大事。但他却并没有同样感到迫在眉睫和放在心上。

到了那个周六，在照常看完两个人都很喜欢的 Futurama 第 6 季的某一集，他突然面色凝重地

走向她，“到时间讨论了。”

她瞬间很紧张和害怕，心脏的异常悸动在提醒她或许一件她以为永远不会发生在她身上的事情
即将到来。

他拿出手机，“我希望你在看完我做的笔记后慎重考虑是否还想和我在一起。”

没有任何预兆，没有任何防备，她突然意识到这可能是早以预谋好的，
在他经常莫名其妙突然用伤感的眼神盯着她说出“你是一个好女孩”时，
在他开始永远推脱周末一起外出去一些稍微有些远、但很新鲜的地方，理由都是“我很累了”
时…
她的眼泪夺眶而出，“你这是要跟我分手的意思对不对”
他紧闭双唇，一言不发，把手机递过来，上面写着“我的目标 VS 你的目标”，而在“你的目
标”那一栏里，所有的内容都被单一化和绝对化👇

“你坚持想要回中国”👈她从来没有这么说过，也明确表示过只是希望体验一段两个人一起住
在中国的时光，他当时也积极回应，表示想在中国住上 3 个月到半年试一试。

“你坚持想要结婚和生小孩”👈她没有说过“此生必结婚，必要生小孩”，她只是想要真诚地
讨论其中一种未来的可能性，以及这种可能性的利弊分析，比如结婚是否可以给曾经饱受被迫
分隔两国之苦的两人一些保障，方便两人一起行动。

但好像在他那里，这些统统都变成了她的绝对。无意中，他还透露出从他俩决定要一起计划后
不久，他就悄无声息地打算自己一个人申请 shopify 的一个项目，生怕她会阻断他的编程学习
梦。
在那个周末，还是决定要一起走下去后，他甚至还说，“这样吧，如果我通过了申请，到时要
一个人先去美国读书，只要你同意让我去，我就可以考虑和你结婚”。

她当时还在所谓“劫后余生”的情绪里，

“你竟然拿结婚当交易？？平时在我建议用结婚作为两个人不会突然再被分隔两国的保障时，
总爱说不愿意让结婚沦为保障的你，还能说出这种话来？而且一听就不是真心想要和我缔结承
诺，主要就是想扫莫须有的清绊脚石而提出的交易。”

她的脑海中这些洞见一闪而过，却没有停留。

回到看他的臆造笔记过程，她哭着看完，心知肚明地问他，“你知道那些都不是我绝对想要的
目标，你也知道我们的目标其实很一致，都是体验更多的生活，你之所以列出这些来，一定是
有别的原因对吗？”

他僵硬地点点头，终于吐出了一行字，“在你上周跟我进行非常彻底的道歉后，我的 trauma
突然攻击我。当时我们被迫分隔两国时的那些被你大喊大叫，动辄得咎的日子，给我烙下太深
的 trauma 了，我很难放下。”

她开始破防，因为她也觉得当时的自己把孤立无援的那股气都撒在了他身上。于是她开始拼命
反省，

他大吐苦水，说如果不每周末都过来她就会生气，她马上表示可以不用每周末都过来，
却忘了去意识到，“啊，原来他并不像我一样想要每周末都见面啊，为什么呢？”

他表示没有个人空间，她马上说“只要你提出来，就算是我们在一块儿的时候，我也可以把这
个物理空间留给你，自己去附近超市或咖啡店逛逛”，
却忘了去意识到，他平时下午 2 点多就放学了，从下午 3 点到我下班回家吃完饭再打电话和他
聊之前，他每天都有 5 个多小时的 me time。

他表示她情绪波动大，她马上说，“我也意识到了，也在努力地改，我保证不会老是发脾气
了”，
却忘了去意识到，在工作上，在朋友面前都有强心脏的自己为何在面对他时容易出现情绪波动。
后知后觉的，她想起那些她满心期待了很久的周末外出，在被他突然以“心情不好，累了”而
拒绝掉时，他从来都不会主动提出，“抱歉，因为我的状态差而打断了你的计划，我们改这个
周末去怎么样？”，他让关系里的 sliding door 渐渐都变成 sliding close 而非 sliding
open。

当时的她只是沉浸在悲伤中，尤其看到他也在哭，她更加自责，把造成如此局面的责任都揽在
自己身上。
两人哭了一个周末，最后抱在一起决定克服困难，继续一起走下去