實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語(yǔ)情景對(duì)話：Teachers 教師

Todd: So, you know, you have a very small school. Have you ever worked for a large school before?

托德：你辦了一家小型學(xué)校。你以前在大型學(xué)校工作過嗎?

Conrad: Yes, I've worked basically every different type of school possible to work here in Japan, starting with the kindergarden, junior high, senmongakko. I was at a university for four years and I also did a little bit of intensive English camps just a couple of years ago.

康拉德：有，我基本上在日本各種不同類型的學(xué)校工作過，從幼兒園、高中到職業(yè)學(xué)校，我都工作過。我曾在大學(xué)任教四年，幾年前我也在強(qiáng)化英語(yǔ)訓(xùn)練營(yíng)工作過。

Todd: So you said senmongakko. What's that?

托德：你剛說到了職業(yè)學(xué)校，那是什么?

Conrad: That's a kind of technical or vocational college. It's a two year school.

康拉德：類似于技術(shù)或是職業(yè)學(xué)校。是兩年制學(xué)校。

Todd: OK.

托德：好。

Conrad: Yeah, I forgot to mention that I also taught at business company classes and of course, ei-kaiwa or language school here, too.

康拉德：哦，我剛才忘了說我還在商業(yè)公司的課程上當(dāng)過老師，當(dāng)然也在日本的語(yǔ)言學(xué)校任過教。

Todd: OK, do you think that, you know, when you have your own... from a teaching point of view, when you have your own school, is the instruction different for a small language school compared to a big language school?

托德：好，你認(rèn)為，有了自己的……從教學(xué)的角度來說，你開辦了自己的學(xué)校后，你認(rèn)為小型語(yǔ)言學(xué)校和大型語(yǔ)言學(xué)校的教學(xué)指導(dǎo)有區(qū)別嗎?

Conrad: Well, the instruction is just depending on the teacher I think, and right now I'm the only full-time teacher and, you know, the guest teachers who do come, I know them personally so I know that the students always have a very qualified teacher and maybe that may be different because you know, sometimes at a big school it's hard to really monitor the teachers that you hire and even monitor what they are doing in the classroom.

康拉德：我認(rèn)為教學(xué)方法取決于老師，現(xiàn)在我是唯一一個(gè)全職老師，你知道我會(huì)邀請(qǐng)一些客座講師來授課，我認(rèn)識(shí)這些客座講師，所以我知道給學(xué)生們講課的是稱職的老師，這可能是不同點(diǎn)，因?yàn)橛袝r(shí)大型學(xué)校很難監(jiān)督所聘請(qǐng)的老師，更別說監(jiān)督這些老師在課堂上的講課內(nèi)容了。

Todd: Right. Now, when you talk about a good quality teacher, for you what makes a good quality teacher?

托德：好。剛才你談到了高素質(zhì)的老師，你認(rèn)為高素質(zhì)的老師要具備什么特質(zhì)?

Conrad: Well, I think personality is very important for one thing, but also I think students need and want a teacher who has experience teaching English. Some of my friends back home tend to think it's easy to just be a native English speaker and teach English, which is really not the case, so I value an experienced teacher and someone who's also studied a little about it and has a TEFL certificate or something like that.

康拉德：嗯，我認(rèn)為品格非常重要，當(dāng)然學(xué)生們需要的是擁有英語(yǔ)教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)的老師。我家鄉(xiāng)的一些朋友往往認(rèn)為母語(yǔ)是英語(yǔ)的人叫英語(yǔ)非常容易，但其實(shí)并不是這樣，我看重老師的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，還有學(xué)習(xí)過教學(xué)知識(shí)的人，最好有英語(yǔ)教師資格證之類的證書。

Todd: Well, good luck with your school, Conrad. I hope it's a big success.

托德：祝你的學(xué)校好運(yùn)，康拉德。我希望你的學(xué)校能大獲成功。

Conrad: Thanks, Todd. Thank very much.

康拉德：謝謝你，托德，非常謝謝你。