雅思口语part2：感兴趣的学科

Describe an interesting subject that you learned at school
What the subject was
What your teacher was like
How long you learned this subject
And explain it was interesting to you

One of the scientific subjects that I learned in high school is physics. It is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behavior through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. It is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, whose main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.

Of course, what I have learned was not that challenging. It was more about introduction to and simple application of these basic physical concepts, which were mainly confined in classical physics, such as three laws of thermodynamics, Newton’ s laws of motion, optics and electromagnetics. But we also touch the area of quantum mechanics.

My physics teacher was a middle-aged man who was medium-sized and a little bald. Instead of directly telling us the knowledge and answers, he preferred eliciting us. First, he would let us do a few experiments and carefully observe their phenomena. Then he would ask questions like what they had in common or what the difference was, trying to make us think for ourselves and understand what the course would be about. In this way, we had a better understanding of the knowledge.

I love physics. In fact, it was my best subject back in high school. I feel I have a better understanding of how the world works through it.

Is there any difference between the traditional and modern education systems?
I can’t really know for sure because I have graduated from school many years ago, but I would try and say that the answer to this question. In the traditional system, teachers are present and have an active role during the class because they do everything on their own. More precisely, verbal communication, interaction and the usage of blackboard are the main elements of this type of system. Books, pens, pencils, lecture and question-answer, written exam and grading are the main ingredients of the traditional education system.

On the contrary, in the modern education system, teachers’ role is restricted as technology does many things instead. With the use of computers and virtual classrooms, the method of teaching has changed to a great extent in the modern education system. Projector, online classes, assignments, online learning system, online exam and asses*ents are the main ingredients of modern education system.

I believe that with both types of educational systems, students will be able to reap benefits as long as they are willing to study in collaboration with their schoolmasters and academic activities.
What are the pros and cons of the current educational system in your country? This is an important issue and I can’t really be accurate because as I mention before I am not aware of the way schools function these days, but I will answer from my experience so far.

A positive thing is that a combination of traditional and modern education methods are applied in our education system and this undoubtedly leads to better results. To illustrate, students are motivated to study and in this way, they develop their cognitive skills, acquire mental capabilities, assimilate the information provided more easily and they also build a well- rounded personality. Some other positive sides of our education system are that the syllabus is updated, the teachers and well trained, the schools have better learning environment, the education ministry is quite positive about improving the education sector and use of technology has been widely accepted in our education sector.

Moving to the downsides, many teachers don’t deal with their students as much as needed and this can cause detrimental effects upon children. Moreover, better students evaluation, question answering and feedback from students about teachers are needed to be implemented.

Do you think it is necessary to give comment or critici* to teachers?
I strongly believe that criticising teachers isn’t the appropriate course of action. The best and most effective method is giving comment and making plausible and constructive conversations about the issues that concern parents and students. Everyone should bears in mind that teaching is an amazingly difficult and fundamental occupation and parents should collaborate and interact with teachers and not assail them. Besides, it would be good to think that from the moment that someone chose to become a teacher, they want the best for their students’ educational level.

How can a teacher make learning more interesting?
It’s a really interesting and useful question that concerns most of the people, including teachers and parents.

To begin, allow me to say that teachers play the most important role in teaching and sharing knowledge among students. For example, when I was in my secondary school, the most difficult subject for me was geography because of the overwhelming information about the different countries. My schoolmaster tried to make it more interesting by telling us different things about each country such us, their brands, monuments, customs and famous people.

In this way, he not only made the subject exciting but also managed to provide us with the needed information and achieved his goal. Nowadays that technology constitutes an essential part of everyday life, teachers have the ability and the opportunity to make things better and more interesting by connecting students to music, movies and documentaries that are relevant to the study. It is undoubtedly a really effective way to stimulate students’ interest and imagination.

Personally, I think that passion for teaching, good relationship with students, telling stories that connect to the lessons and use of technology can make learning more interesting, engaging and effective.