Task 2:
1. Some parents prefer to help their kids to solve the problems and troubles they meet, while some parents prefer to let their children deal with difficulties by themselves, which one do you think is more reasonable and why?
Sample response:
I prefer my parents’ help, cause parents are more experienced; with their help, kids may correct mistakes quickly and achieve better results. I remember when I leant English in my childhood, frequently I couldn’t remember words clearly and I often felt depressed. Knowing this, my parents gave the guidance, telling me once I learnt some new words, what I should do is review them as much as possible instead of just reciting them once; reciting once without reviewing is the typical mistake when learning language. Afterwards, whenever I learnt some new words, I paid much attention to how many times I have reviewed. Then I can remember English words well. I am grateful to my parents’ help.
2. Your university is going to allow citizens from the society to audit classes with undergraduates together without receiving grades or earning credits. Do you think this is a good program and why?
Sample response:
I really don’t think it is a reasonable option.
Firstly, this choice may not be good for undergraduates who are actually taking the classes for credits or grades. Those auditing students may not be well prepared; they may ask basic questions and even slow down the pace of class discussion. While those non-auditing students will spend a lot of time preparing for the classes.
Secondly, this choice may increase the work load of professors. If adding those auditing students in class, professors may have to prepare extra handouts, learn extranames or possibly answer those students’ questions and so on. All these will distract professors’ attention.
3. Children should listen to or read news at an early age. Do you agree or disagree with such a statement? Give your specific explanation in your response.
Sample response:
I agree with it, because this may equip children themselves with useful knowledge.
I remember clearly I was a crazy fan on sports news when I was a child. Everyday after school I would focus on the sports news for an hour, searching the news on my favorite football star, favorite team, excellent goals and so on. Afterwards when my elementary school organized a school football team, I was appointed as the captain because I was very familiar with many things about football, such as the rules, the organization and so on. Thanks to the sports news I had seen, or else I couldn't be so professional and got such an honor at that time.
4. Some teachers think competition will motivate students, while some teachers argue competition will exert adverse influence on children. Which one do you agree and why?
Sample response:
In my view, no competition, no progress.
Taking myself for example, now I am studying baking in a training school; every month the chef will organize a competition on baking bread and cakes. The chef will have the comments for every student on the time we use, the taste we bake, the profile we make and the skills we adopt and so on, and chooses the top 2 products. At first, I always lagged behind, but gradually, just because of the competition and comments, I learned from others and became at adept at using proper skills when baking my foods. Looking back now, if there hadn’t been competition, I couldn’t have made progress so quickly.