■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer | |
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Question 1. Some people prefer learning from a teacher, whereas other people perfer to learn by themselves. Which method do you think is better? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. | | | |
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* I don't go any academy after school. Because I can study by myself at home .But I go to school because there are teachers and friends. The reason why I don't homeschool is there are many things I can not learn from books even I have abilities to study well.
Teachers teach me the things. In short, I prefer to learn from a teacher.
Teachers have taught lots of students, so they know well about the students. So when I am worried about my future and dream, they tell me the right ways I should choose to go. However, if I study alone without teacher's help. there's no one who can tell me professionally like them. So it was my first reason.
And they are also tutor of life. Seriously they are older than me and know more about the world. So when they find my lack of sth, they say that for my development. For my personal experience, I was little selfish when I was in first grade of MS. But my teacher, Mrs. Bae told me to change that characteristic. Even it was my bad point, nobody told me that before. Because they don't know that to tell me the fact is helpful thing to me. But she said because she was my teacher, and wanted a better person, I, Jasmine Kim.
Can I get these things through learning by myself? No, I believe I can't. But with teacher, I can get. Some people don't prefer learning from teacher because of their time things, but I am sure that teacherse give more valuable things that we can not get just from time. | |
Summary
Teacher's good points
-learn things by their experiences
-know more than I do
-had many students like me before
-tutor of life
-can notice student's bad points quickly
Teacher's bad points
-can not have one's own time to study a lot
-have to pay some money for the teacher
myself's good points
-do not cost lots of money
-do not get any homework from teacher
-can have my own time to study a lot
myself's bad points
-hard to notice one's weak or bad points as human
-need a long time to solve the hard question without teacher's help that one doesn't know
My opinion-teacher...
introduction - emphasize my position "TEACHER"
main contents 1. can notice my weak point quickly, so I can try to change that as student.
2. to students : tell the proper ways to go
3. get homework, makes me to study a lot
(it is just sample things, so I added more reasons, and substracted)
please grade it with serious comments thanks!