16, another sunny day

When I came back from Mary Liu's apartment, it was already late when I arrived at Zhang Lili's dormitory, and the two of us hurriedly washed up and went to sleep. On the second day, when I opened my eyes, a strong ray of sunlight was already shining on the floor of the dormitory, and I stretched my waist and said loudly, "That's great, it's another sunny day." ”

Zhang Lili had already woken up, and after freshening up, she was watching me wake up, and said to me with a smile, "I still have a student going to tutoring this morning, do you have anything to tell me?" ”

I smiled and said, "It's really a bit of a problem, I have a student named Yang Jiajia, other grades are good, foreign language scores are also good, I went to tutor her this afternoon, I want you to join me, I will give her some more Chinese and composition knowledge, I want you to help him sort out his English learning, do you have time?" ”

Zhang Lili said to me with a smile, "How can there be a tutor like you, who can just manage your Chinese and composition teaching, and hire a foreign language tutor for students like you?" What's more, you come forward, you know that I won't agree, but you have to do it, Wang Wenli's thing happened last time, and this time you came again, what do you say? ”

I said with a grim face, "Seeing that you are so verbose, you can say yes or no." ”

She said helplessly, "Then you should get up quickly, today the two of us will go to tutoring in a group, and you will also meet with my classmate in the morning to see if he has any problems with language and composition." I'll follow you in the afternoon, okay? ”

I heard her say yes, got up and rested, and then we went to breakfast together.

Zhang Lili's student is called Liang Sui, a very cute little girl, the two of us went to her house together, Zhang Lili introduced me to her, and then they started to tutor English. I have been listening to Zhang Lili's lecture, this time Zhang Lili told Liang Xinzhi about the past tense, high school students will be in the past tense, Liang is very complicated, but the teacher is very serious, the students listen very carefully, it seems that Zhang Lili knows this Liang is very familiar, many rare words Liang can understand, it seems that the level of learning English is still very high, because this has greatly exceeded the high school syllabus, although I can also understand, It is because my vocabulary has reached the level of level 6, and the students of Zhang Lili's tutoring have been able to improve to this level, and I have to admire Zhang Lili's teaching level.

Half an hour earlier, Zhang Lili finished her class, and finally he said to Liang, "I specially invited Teacher Jiang to come with me today, I heard that you have always had these fears of difficulty in your composition, Teacher Jiang is also a tutor, and she is tutoring three students who are facing the college entrance examination, if you have any questions, you can communicate with Teacher Jiang." ”

I realized that Zhang Lili had left this time to me, so I said to the students, "Don't be nervous, the two of us just communicate casually, if it helps you a little, of course I am the happiest." ”

Liang then said a little twisted, "Mr. Jiang, my composition has always been good, I don't know how it is recently, I don't know what to think when I pick up the pen and look at the topic, this phenomenon has never been before, my composition has also been a model essay in the class, I have read it several times, why don't I know what to write now?" ”

I smiled and said to her, "It looks like I'm going to congratulate you, this is a person who writes to a certain level, enters a bottleneck period, at this time writing everything is a little confused, originally handy, now I don't know where to start, it means that you think about the subject matter, do you know the trade-off of the material, but you don't know if the trade-off is right, so I feel lost, you might as well be like this, you first type a draft or make an outline according to your ideas, even if it is to write the beginning of the article at all, At that point, you can make a trade-off, and the effect may be better. ”

My words may have touched Liang Sui, and Liang Sui said to me with a very relieved expression, "Teacher, what you said is so right, I just have a lot of ideas after getting a topic, and my brain feels confused, I don't know which things to choose, which things to write better, it turns out that I got a topic, one thing is on the line, and now there are several things around a topic, how to choose?" I really can't make up my mind. ”

I further explained, "The choice of a material is not in the material itself, but in what problem the author wants to illustrate with this material, there is a topic with many materials to choose from, indicating that your life experience is very rich, and your thinking is also very open, this is a good thing, the key is to understand the topic, what is the central idea to express?" Choosing materials around the central idea, when you wrote an article before, it may be just one idea, just one kind of material, you didn't choose, so you want to write the article well wholeheartedly, and it will generally be a good article. But there are more materials, you observe the problem, the angle and perspective of the analysis of the problem will be different, the same material around a center can be written to the left, if in order to express another center, you can also oblique to the right, so your own angle of observing the problem, the way of expressing the problem, is the decisive factor that determines the quality of this article. ”

Liang then seemed to understand something, and stated to me, "You mean to adjust the angle of the material according to my ideas, cut the material, and discuss it around the center, is that what you mean?" ”

I insisted on encouraging her to say, "I just listened to your English tutoring for a while, in fact, Mr. Zhang is already teaching according to your level, you have a very good understanding of learning, so you learn this depth, you can still work tirelessly, indicating that you still have a lot of potential, now say that you write an article, in fact, your article has been written very well, as long as you persist, Your essay will be better written, once the topic of the essay is decided, it will be easy to select and cut the material? The special surprise you summarized, we generally select materials around the central idea to choose, and the material itself wants to express the central idea more prominently, it must be tailored according to the requirements of the central idea, so that the reasoning can be more favorable, the things can be more concise, and the composition will be more incisive. ”

Liang then flashed his smart eyes, and then said, "Teacher, what you said is so good, I just sometimes want to explain the problem clearly when writing an essay, so I write things in great detail, and it looks really verbose afterwards, if you cut the material according to what you said, it will be much simpler and clearer, and I will write an incisive composition." ”

I went on to say, "The average Chinese teacher has such a habit of first looking at whether the student can write an essay, then to see if the essay is prominent in the central idea, and finally to see whether your arguments, or the examples you choose, whether they are closely related to your central idea, and the most important thing is to see whether you have incisive language and concise narrative. Now we have entered the countdown to the college entrance examination, and the requirements for your composition at this stage are not only smooth writing and smooth sentences, but also to enter the stage of incisive and concise, I believe that after several exercises, your essay must be an excellent composition, because your comprehension and expression skills are particularly good, and your composition will be liked by every teacher. ”

Zhang Lili was very worried that she would be proud when she saw me praising her like this, so she hurriedly added, "Teacher Jiang pointed out that you should be very clear about the points of your composition, concise and incisive is the requirement for your next stage of composition, and the composition does not need to be gorgeous, but needs to be fluent, incisive, concise, and straightforward." You should keep these requirements in mind and the basic requirements for your own composition. ”

I asked Liang kindly, "Do you have any other questions?" If not, that's all for today's lesson. ”

It's over, tutoring Zhang Lili's students, the two of us came out of their house, the time was almost 12 o'clock, found a restaurant, had a simple meal, and went to Yang Jiajia's house together.

Yang Jiajia's tutoring is very compact, the main content is still a summary of some words in ancient Chinese, I use a USB flash drive, the content of the lecture, download to Yang Jiajia's computer, because Yang Jiajia's self-learning ability has recently improved very well, so I simply reminded some key points, some special words and again, 50 pronouns of the explanation, just took a short time to complete, I repeatedly told Yang Jiajia to be sure to read the handouts I prepared in detail after class, I've made a list of all the pronouns that have multiple meanings.

Then I spent most of my time explaining to him the appreciation of key ancient poems in Chinese textbooks at the high school and junior high school levels. The ancient poems of high school and junior high school, mainly selected from the poems of the Tang Dynasty and Chairman Mao, the poems of the Tang Dynasty are very complicated, I just from, the basic knowledge of ancient poems and the differences between Yuefu poems, and focus on Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Lu You Du Fu, and some classic poems of Su Shi, a famous master of the Song Dynasty, starting from the author's life experience, social background, and historical knowledge, I talked about some of the rhythmic knowledge of near-body poems, of course, they are some basic knowledge, I put the most important part on the explanation of Chairman Mao's poems.

The understanding of Chairman Mao's poems, of course, is combined with the time carried out, pulling a line of Chairman Mao's early revolutionary activities, and listing the achievements made after the founding of the People's Republic of China one by one, so that we can understand Chairman Mao's poems, the magnificent momentum and the combination of revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism, especially Chairman Mao's use of ancient poems to express revolutionary optimism, has changed the meaning of the original poems, is a proletarian revolutionary's magnificent spirit, Of course, in terms of words, allusions, and idioms, it is also listed.

In the process of explaining, Zhang Lili was also listening to the side, he listened no less than Yang Jiajia's full attention, even Yang Jiajia in the living room, the family was silent, engrossed, after the explanation, the time has passed two hours, I asked Zhang Lili, Yang Jiajia to review English, when Zhang Lili helped Yang Jiajia review English, I withdrew from the room, came to the living room and Yang Jiajia's grandparents chatted for a while.

Yang Jiajia's grandfather was particularly enthusiastic, and said to me with a smile, "Mr. Jiang, you are so young at such a young age, you are so knowledgeable, and you tell poetry so well, this is the best class I have ever listened to, I really deserve to be a student of Yenching University, not only rich in knowledge, but also from a historical point of view, so that we can more easily understand the artistic conception of poetry, especially when it comes to Chairman Mao's poems, the grasp of major events is really accurate, I have been a leader in the unit all my life, and I am familiar with Chairman Mao's poems. But from the perspective you just said, it is the first time to understand Chairman Mao's poems, and it is really good, very good, this is not only an appreciation of poetry, but also a living party history lesson. ”

I was really embarrassed by the old man's praise, two red clouds flew up my cheeks, "Grandpa Yang, I'm still very young, I also learn and sell these things, if it's not accurate, you still need to point it out, you have done a lifetime of revolution, learning Chairman Mao's poems, it must be different from what we understand, more thorough than we have to understand, understand deeply, because many things are experienced by you, when I was born, Chairman Mao has been dead for 20 years, so we can only learn from the information and documents, You are learning with your own life's experience. ”

Yang Jiajia's mother hurriedly walked over, "Teacher Jiang, you just invited Jiajia, this is a foreign language teacher, people tutor children, how can I pay for others?" Now the old foreign language tutors are very expensive, do we give the teachers money according to the outside market? ”

I hurriedly explained to Yang Jiajia's mother, "Auntie, Teacher Zhang Lili is my very good friend, I know that Jiajia has encountered difficulties in English learning, so I want to ask him to come over to tutor him, when he came, he just said that he just helped and did not charge, if you have to give, just give it according to the usual general standards, the teachers outside are very expensive, we do not compare with them, mainly for Jiajia to be able to develop comprehensively, consolidate the foreign language scores, and improve a little, If you feel that there is time to have an effect this time, let Mr. Zhang tutor twice, and the effect may be better, because English, like Chinese, cannot be immediate, and you need to tutor several times to see results. ”

Yang Jiajia's mother said gratefully, "Teacher Jiang, you are really good, all for our Jiajia to be able to catch up on his academic performance, we were originally going to hire an English tutor for him, but now the teachers are very busy, I can't invite it, this time we haven't gone to find a tutor, we have already troubled you, in terms of cost, we must not treat Teacher Zhang badly." ”

I hurriedly stopped and said, "Auntie, I understand your feelings, but you must not overdo it in terms of expenses, just give as much as you want, because it's not once or twice, if you give it once or twice, he can help completely, if you give too much, it's not good to scare him away." ”

Yang Jiajia's mother said to me, "Then I will listen to you and pay according to the general fee, but eat at my place in the evening, I am ready." ”

I hurriedly excused myself and said, "Auntie, we definitely can't eat here today, because a friend of mine has made an appointment with me several times, and the two of us will go over together for a while, although these two days are on vacation, I have a full schedule of make-up tasks, and I can only get together with them at night, I am not polite to you at all, if there is no other appointment in the future, I will eat here with you, do you say it's okay?" ”

At this time, Yang Jiajia's grandmother came over, "Teacher Jiang, you are really responsible for the children, it's really good, not only the class is good, but also to help the children relieve the pressure of learning, yesterday I heard Jiajia say that you paid for a few of them to eat together, and accompanied them to play in the playground for a long time, you were originally a tutor teacher, more responsible than the school teacher, today you helped him invite an English teacher to tutor English, please have a meal, you are still urging us to have a meal in our hearts, Our family is an ordinary working family, what is delicious is some common food, you better stay and eat, otherwise there is a big holiday, where are you going to eat? ”

I told Grandma Yang the reason for not eating again, and then said to the old man, "Grandma, I also grew up with my grandparents, I feel very kind to your old man, I really won't be polite to you, I did make an appointment with a friend, I want to get together tonight, the itinerary for the three students in the past two days is full, I really don't have time to get together with them during the day, so I can only arrange it in the evening, I hope you can forgive me, I won't eat here with you today, When I review Jiajia in the future, I'll eat it at your place, okay? ”

Grandpa Yang spoke, "Don't let the child worry, Teacher Jiang said so sincerely, let him go to a friend's place for dinner, let's talk about it, give Jiajia tutoring in the future, and leave after eating at home, or come early, and review him after lunch, you and Jiajia are almost a few years old, we will treat you as our own child." ”

Seeing Grandpa Yang help me to play the round, I was indeed very grateful, but the enthusiasm of Grandma Yang and Mother Yang also touched me very much, so I said to them, "Grandparents, uncles and aunts, the atmosphere in your home is really similar to the atmosphere in our home, I was brought up by my grandparents, usually my parents are busy at work, and all things are helped by my grandparents, so every time I go to your house, I will think of my own home, my grandparents and parents, I'm not polite to you at all, I take Jiajia as my own sister, so I do something, you don't have to thank me so much, just treat me as a family member. ”

At this time, Zhang Lili and Yang Jiajia came out of Yang Jiajia's bedroom, and I asked Zhang Lili, "What do you think of the situation?" ”

Zhang Lili said to me, "Yang Jiajia and my student Liang Sui's situation is similar, Yang Jiajia's usual English scores are also very good, now everyone may be because there are tutors to improve very fast, she is because she is learning to improve, relatively slow, in English learning is also encountered some bottlenecks, today I focused on her to tell some, English language environment issues, in fact, this is particularly important for a person who learns English, English is language arts, all language learning is inseparable from the language environment." , Non-English native countries will encounter the same problem, so change the language environment, the habit of Chinese into the habit of English, which is very difficult in itself, fortunately, Yang Jiajia's foundation is very good, the number of words is also good, the tense is also very accurate, increase listening and speaking practice to increase fast reading, and then read some classic articles intensively, a few tutoring may greatly improve the score, if you continue to study according to this idea, her college entrance examination English score may be more certain than the Chinese college entrance examination score. ”

I asked Zhang Lili again, "Do you estimate that you can solve the problem with a few tutoring?" ”

Zhang Lili said to me, "Five or six times, if I can keep it once a month, I guarantee that she will greatly improve her grades by learning English, and I can also ensure that she will be able to get a high score in English in the college entrance examination." ”

I asked Yang Jiajia again, "Do you think Teacher Zhang's counseling has helped you a lot?" ”

Yang Jiajia said to me sincerely, "I love to listen to Mr. Zhang's lectures, and I can understand them, and the questions he says are all to the point. ”

I said to Zhang Lili again, "Teacher Zhang, Yang Jiajia's English is entrusted to you, you two leave contact information, Yang Jiajia will contact you directly when she is in need, do you think it's okay?" ”

Zhang Lili also said boldly, "Do you still have any questions here?" He said to Yang Jiajia, "Your foundation is very good, you need to strengthen fast reading, just like reading a newspaper, you can put some keywords, the key is to find out, and then answer the reading comprehension exercises, do more, you will improve your English scores, your key is to be a little hesitant in English fast reading, if you need anything, call me or send WeChat, let's determine the next tutoring time, do you see it?" ”

Yang Jiajia said happily, "Thank you so much, Mr. Zhang, I will contact you then." ”