At lunchtime, Lin Ping looked at Ma Zhongguo and thought for a while and then asked, "Teacher Ma, why is this group of students' English so poor?"

Teacher Ma, who was munching on the dough, paused, took a sip of porridge from the bowl and said, "My fault, they don't like to learn English, and I don't like to teach." I...... My English is so poor. ”

"Then the elementary school students over there haven't been able to learn English well, right?" Lin Ping asked with concern.

"Yes, I was just about to discuss with you, you can also teach these elementary school children to learn English, alas, I really can't do anything......" Ma Zhongguo put down his job and looked at Lin Ping.

"Well, I think so too, it just so happens that I have been teaching Liu Weiguo a few of their most basic alphabets and phonetic transcriptions recently, and let a few of your primary school students come over to listen to the class together when you have English classes in the future." Lin Ping said that when he was teaching phonetic transcription to the five junior high school students this morning, he thought of the primary school students on Mr. Ma's side, and thought that teaching one is also teaching, and teaching two is also teaching, so it is better to simply teach Liu Dazhu and them together.

Language learning should start from an early age, the younger the better, the child is like a blank piece of paper, his language habits and language thinking have not yet been formed, and it is easier to adapt to bilingualism with strong receptivity.

People's sensitivity and talent for language will slowly deteriorate with age, and it is certainly better to start learning English from elementary school than from junior high school, and the gap is very obvious, which is beyond doubt. Liu Weiguo and the others are only now starting to receive a good English education, which is actually three years late, and Lin Ping doesn't want Liu Dazhu and several of his elementary school students to face this embarrassing situation.

"It's for the best. Ma Zhongguo said with satisfaction that English teaching was a stone in his heart.

"By the way, Teacher Ma, haven't you learned English before?" Lin Ping asked curiously, but if Ma Zhongguo has junior high school English proficiency, he shouldn't make the English proficiency of several children so poor.

"Alas, it's hard to put into words. Ma Zhongguo shook his head and began to say, "When I was young, it was not popular to learn English in the country, and at that time, I learned from the Soviet Union, and foreign language learning was still mainly Russian. Later, he advocated learning English for all......"

Ma Zhongguo picked up the rice bowl and used chopsticks to pour a few grains of rice into his mouth, and continued: "This school has few children, so there is no new English teacher, and I have always been on top of it. ”

Lin Ping listened and nodded: "Alas, no matter what, over the years, the children in the Kushan Mountains have suffered thanks to you, Teacher Ma. ”

Lin Ping didn't know how many mountain village teachers there were like Ma Zhongguo, but he felt that every mountain village teacher should be highly respected by the 1.3 billion Chinese.

Ma Zhongguo shook his head with a smile, then looked at Lin Ping and said sincerely, "Xiao Lin, Principal Lin, can I discuss something with you." ”

"Teacher Ma, just say it directly, don't be polite to me. Lin Ping said, "Let's say something bad now, that is, a grasshopper on a rope, do we still need to be polite between the two of us?"

Teacher Ma was a little embarrassed and said, "I heard the content of your lecture today, I heard it next door, I think you spoke well, I thought about it, and made a decision, I want to learn English with the children, do you think it's okay?"

"Poof......

Lin Ping had just taken the last mouthful of porridge into his mouth, and Ma Zhongguo's request made him choke on it, and rice grains squirted out of his nostrils.

"Teacher Lin, don't think I'm old, I usually work hard to learn English by myself, but I can't learn the phonetic transcription you talk about in the morning, I just can only read and write, I can't pronounce and can't pronounce it...... Ma Zhongguo said very sincerely.

Lin Ping pinched his nose: "No, no, I don't mean to dislike you." It's a very good thing that you can take the initiative to learn, and we learn from each other and learn from each other. ”

Ma Zhongguo said embarrassedly: "Hey, you know more than me, and you still have foreign ink in your stomach, so I have something worth learning from you." I just want to learn English well, and I can help you share some of the pressure in your future school education, as long as I can teach my English level in primary school. ”

Lin Ping naturally readily agreed, Ma Zhongguo is now the only teacher under him, and there are still great variables in the future development of the school, so that Ma Zhongguo also has a certain level of English ability, no matter what, it will be of great benefit to the development of the school.

As a result, for the education of rural primary schools in the Kushan mountain area and for the future of the students, the old and the young have achieved a rare "learning from the old to the young".

"By the way, Mr. Ma, you are not a native of this Kushan Mountain, right? Lin Ping asked.

"Well, yes. Ma Zhongguo nodded.

"Why did you come here?" Lin Ping was full of curiosity about Ma Zhongguo, he especially wanted to know what made Ma Zhongguo come here, and how he stayed here for twenty-six years.

Ma Zhongguo was silent for a while and did not speak, and then began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the dinner table, and squeezed out a sentence for a long time: "Are you done eating?"

Without waiting for Lin Ping to reply, Ma Zhongguo put away the dishes and chopsticks in front of Lin Ping.

"Let's go to a nap and have classes in the afternoon to recuperate our spirits. With that, Ma Zhongguo walked outside with the dishes and chopsticks, and rejected Lin Ping's question with his back.

In the first class of the afternoon, the nine children and Teacher Ma were all sitting in the classroom, while the English teacher Lin Ping stood on the podium and began to write on the board.

According to Lin Ping's class schedule, the three classes this morning are in Chinese, mathematics and English, and the three classes in the afternoon are physics, chemistry and biology, but because the first year of junior high school does not learn physics or chemistry, these two classes were transferred to English by Lin Ping.

The students' English is so bad that now they are making amends.

"Class!"

"Hello teacher!"

Ma Zhongguo stood up with the students, and shouted "Hello teacher" generously.

The nine children turned their heads to look at Ma Zhongguo in surprise, Ma Zhongguo sat down generously, took out his reading glasses and put them on, and then sat upright like a primary school student and waited for Teacher Lin Ping to start lecturing.

"Teacher Ma, why are you sitting here in class?" asked Liu Xiangqian curiously.

Ma Zhongguo helped his reading glasses: "Yes, from today onwards, I will be a student in the future English class, just like you, and I am a student of Teacher Lin." ”

The nine children felt even more strange.

"But, Teacher Ma, you are an old man, Teacher Lin is still so young, you take his class and let him be your teacher?" asked Liu Weiguo with a puzzled expression.

Ma Zhongguo smiled: "There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry." Remember, children, that the accumulation of knowledge is not necessarily proportional to age, and learning is not necessarily age-related. Now I'm just like you, I'm a student, come, let's take Mr. Lin's class together. ”

Lin Pingzi looked at this "old student" and nine "elementary school students" from the podium, and he didn't know what reason he didn't have to do this class.