美語情景對話 第666期:Teachers 教師

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

託德：你辦了一家小型學校。你以前在大型學校工作過嗎？

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校工作過，從幼兒園、高中到職業學校，我都工作過。我曾在大學任教四年，幾年前我也在強化英語訓練營工作過。

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

託德：你剛說到了職業學校，那是什麼？

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

康拉德：類似於技術或是職業學校。是兩年制學校。

Todd: OK.

託德：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，我剛纔忘了說我還在商業公司的課程上當過老師，當然也在日本的語言學校任過教。

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?

託德：好，你認爲，有了自己的……從教學的角度來說，你開辦了自己的學校後，你認爲小型語言學校和大型語言學校的教學指導有區別嗎？

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：我認爲教學方法取決於老師，現在我是唯一一個全職老師，你知道我會邀請一些客座講師來授課，我認識這些客座講師，所以我知道給學生們講課的是稱職的老師，這可能是不同點，因爲有時大型學校很難監督所聘請的老師，更別說監督這些老師在課堂上的講課內容了。

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

託德：好。剛纔你談到了高素質的老師，你認爲高素質的老師要具備什麼特質？

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，我認爲品格非常重要，當然學生們需要的是擁有英語教學經驗的老師。我家鄉的一些朋友往往認爲母語是英語的人叫英語非常容易，但其實並不是這樣，我看重老師的經驗，還有學習過教學知識的人，最好有英語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.

託德：祝你的學校好運，康拉德。我希望你的學校能大獲成功。

Conrad: Thanks, Todd. Thank very much.

康拉德：謝謝你，託德，非常謝謝你。

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重點講解：
1. t of view 考慮角度；判斷方法；
例句：Looked at from that point of view, the job becomes easy.
從那個觀點看，這工作就容易了。
2. compared to 與…相比；和…比起來；
例句：Compared to many people,she was indeed very fortunate.
和許多人比起來她確實是很幸運的。
3. depend on 取決（於）；有賴（於）；
例句：Wage rates depend on levels of productivity.
工資水平取決於生產量的多寡。
4. tend to do sth. 往往會；經常就；
例句：I tend to think that she is right.
我傾向於認爲她是對的。