Chapter 18: Assault Reinforcement Class
Xu Yiyang came to the electric classroom on the south side of the second floor, and after opening the door, he turned on all the lights in the classroom.
To put it bluntly, the electronic classroom is a multimedia classroom, the traditional classroom lectures rely on the blackboard, and the electronic classroom lectures rely on projections and slides.
The size of this classroom is larger than that of ordinary classrooms, and it appears to be very spacious.
The lighting is higher than that of ordinary teachers, so it is brighter.
The matching desks and chairs are also much better than the double desks in the classroom.
Xu Yiyang stood on the podium and counted, there were 10 rows of electric classrooms, with a total of 80 seats.
This means that a maximum of 80 students can be accepted in a class for their own training classes.
In addition, there is a Lenovo desktop computer and a microphone on the podium, which is connected to the speakers hanging in the four corners of the classroom.
A projector is suspended from the top of the front of the classroom, and an old-fashioned slide projector is placed in the corner.
For Xu Yiyang, who was reborn in 2020, almost all the equipment in this electric classroom is a product of ancient times.
In his previous life, when he was doing education and training, every student in the classroom had an iPad.
All the courseware, homework, and test questions of the teacher are completely through the self-developed APP, and the students interact online, which is extremely convenient.
At the same time, when the teacher is lecturing, there is also a high-definition camera in the classroom responsible for online live broadcast, and students who purchase courses online can learn remotely through the APP.
You can even do homework, exams, and even answer questions in class remotely.
However, he also knows very well in his heart that this electric classroom is very old in his opinion, but in the eyes of current students and parents, it must be very advanced.
Xu Yiyang lowered his head in the podium and found a printer, so he hurriedly opened it and the old-fashioned computer, ready to connect the printer and print some enrollment advertisements.
The computer system is still the old Windows 95, the computer is very slow, the color and resolution are also very poor, and it is very uncomfortable to watch.
Fortunately, Office97 was installed in the computer, so Xu Yiyang opened Word and typeset a relatively simple and eye-catching enrollment advertisement by himself.
The title of the advertisement is: Xu Yiyang's English Speaking Assault Reinforcement Class Enrollment!
The reason why it is called the assault reinforcement class is to create a sense of urgency.
When parents think that other people's children may be receiving surprise training here, they should involuntarily have the illusion that their own children have fallen behind.
To put it bluntly, it is also selling anxiety in disguise, which is a kind of marketing method.
Then there's the slogan.
"Do you want your child to speak standard and fluent spoken English?"
"Do you want your child to be able to talk and laugh with foreigners in fluent English?"
"Xu Yiyang's English Speaking Assault Intensive Class, specifically for spoken English, carries out systematic and professional assault training, and conducts eight days of intensive training during the winter vacation, so that your child's oral English can improve by leaps and bounds!"
Course Description: Elementary Class (for elementary school students), Intermediate Class (for junior high school students), Advanced Class (for high school students)
Special note: The senior class does not recruit students in the third year of high school, please work hard to prepare for the college entrance examination!
Course arrangement: 8 lessons per session, each class is 60 minutes;
Course fee: 100 yuan per person per session;
Registration location: Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School Experimental Building Electric Classroom;
Registration time: February 11, 1999, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Classes start on February 12 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. for beginners, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on February 12 for intermediate classes, and 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. for advanced classes.
Special reminder: There are only 80 places in the elementary, intermediate and senior classes, so register as soon as possible!
Xu Yiyang feels that the price of 100 yuan for eight classes is not expensive, and it is basically the market price of extracurricular cram schools now.
He still remembers that when he was in high school, off-campus cram schools were generally forty or fifty yuan a month, and there were only four classes a month.
So, your own pricing is not too high.
In addition, I am somewhat well-known now, and having popularity means that there is a premium, so when converted, my training class is still very cost-effective.
According to his plan, it is best to recruit 80 people in three classes: elementary, intermediate and advanced.
In this case, there are a total of 240 students, 100 yuan each, which is 24,000!
It doesn't matter if you can't recruit so many students, anyway, your own training class is basically a zero-cost operation, and as long as there are students who sign up, you can make money.
Even if you can only recruit a hundred students in total, you can earn 10,000 yuan, and in 1999, 10,000 yuan was a big number!
If you're lucky enough to have more than 80 students enrolled in a class, you'll be able to add another class.
Anyway, I only have three classes in the morning now, so I can arrange the class time of the additional class in the afternoon and evening.
However, as for how many students can be recruited, Xu Yiyang himself is a little uncertain.
You can only do what you have to do, and leave the rest to the market.
As for the preparation of courseware for speaking classes, this is not a problem for him at all.
After all, he has been doing English training for many years, and although he is not an English teacher, he has ten years of personal experience.
In the early stage of entrepreneurship, the teaching courseware, teaching methods and teaching entry points of the training school were all made by his wife Gu Sijia herself.
After all, she is a Ph.D. in the UK, and she has a deep understanding of English teaching, and she has also made many adjustments according to local conditions according to the actual situation in China to make this teaching method more scientific and effective.
At that time, Xu Yiyang had been assisting by the side, and at the same time, he was also studying seriously, so his memory of these contents was very profound.
When Xu Yiyang started his business in his last life, he mainly did English training in three sections:
The first section is English course guidance for primary and secondary school students, which is based on school textbooks, which is relatively simple;
The second section is for students who want to study abroad and take IELTS, providing professional targeted tutoring, which has the highest requirements for professionalism, and there is a giant crocodile like New Oriental, which has great competitive pressure;
The third section is for professional speaking training and tutoring for various groups who want to practice speaking, which is actually the simplest.
The pursuit of oral training is not to memorize a large number of vocabulary, grammar, and sentence patterns in a short period of time, so whether it is teaching or learning, the rhythm is not very tense, and even learning while playing and chatting is relatively interesting.
Xu Yiyang has already planned the eight-day assault oral syllabus for the junior high, middle and high school classes in his mind, and it just so happens that there are computers and projectors in the electric classroom.
After all, the core of speaking English well is to listen more, learn more, speak more, and practice more;
In addition, when teaching students oral pronunciation, we should encourage and guide them to let go of their shyness and speak up boldly.
At the same time, we should do a good job of interacting with classmates and driving the classroom atmosphere, so that everyone can immerse themselves in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.
Based on Xu Yiyang's experience, it is best to adopt the teaching mode of teaching based on entertaining in oral English training, which is not only easy to teach by yourself, but also easy for students to learn, and the teaching effect will be better.
As long as you do this, you are basically in place.
After the enrollment advertisement was typeset, Xu Yiyang directly used the school's printer to type dozens of photos, which he could take with him when he left and ride to some densely populated communities to post them.
In this way, the cost of publicity is saved.
Subsequently, Xu Yiyang designed a set of templates for the student registration form and printed a few for later use.
Thinking that students need a class voucher after signing up, Xu Yiyang designed a class card template.
The size of the card template is about the same size as the ID card, and it can be cut after being printed out on A4 paper.
The venue is the school, the equipment is the school, the printer is the school, and the A4 paper is the school.
Xu Yiyang thought about it, this is a real zero-cost business!
After all this was done, Xu Yiyang took a stack of printed A4 paper and rode out of school.
But as soon as he got out of school, he ruined the tone of his zero-cost entrepreneurship and bought a roll of wide tape at a roadside bookstore for two dollars......