ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEWSPAPER
1 October 2008
9
GENERAL
TEACHERS’ DAY The English department is happy to announce that we have finished judging the submissions to the essay contest. All of the entries were very good so determining the best one was a challenge for the judges. After much deliberation, it has been decided that Lymei Sun is the winner of the contest. TEACHER Within this enormous universe, knowledge is one of the most fundamental things. People need their knowledge to lead their accomplishments, to invent modern apparatuses, etc. But first we need education to get knowledge. Routinely, education is found in a school; the ones who actually provide us this valuable knowledge are the teachers. Accordingly, we half understand that teachers are very meaningful to us. By the way, if we take a clear look and also think about the word “teacher”, we’ll find some meanings in it. calm down and tell you to be silent. If the result was positive that would be fine; by contrast, the students may have tried to challenge the teachers and make even more noise. At that difficult situation, the teachers made a gallant attempt to hide t h e i r a n g e r. T h i s i s r e a l l y Top-notch stands for the highest awesome; to be able to hide your q u a l i t y. I t i n c r e a s e s t h e violent feelings. student’s benefits from the teacher. How can I say that Their worthwhile advice can teachers are top-notch? Easy, build up your confidence. One of I ’ l l g i v e y o u o n e e x a m p l e : my teachers used to tell me a teachers are like a very popular proverb: “No pain, no gain” I can computer which gathers a lot of s t i l l r e m e m b e r t h i s a n d I i n f o r m a t i o n , d o c u m e n t s , understand it very well now. At l a n g u a g e s , e t c . W e c a n the time she told me those words understand things clearly with I had just made a big mistake and this explanation about what my confidence was low. After teachers are similar to. That’s figuring out the meaning of those why teachers are top-notch. words and participating in the class again, I noticed that my Excellent defines the teacher’s self-confidence was improving. behavior. They try to show and Coming face-to-face with failure I teach us the best way to be a could still believe in myself. polite and law-abiding person such as how to greet people, Moreover, teachers are helpful make excuses, show respect to people. You can discover it for our elders, and so much more. yourself with some very simple comparisons. Such as, you can Awesome is about their self- ask you history teacher about the control. Can you remember events that happened in the past what the teachers did when you instead of having to look in a were talking a lot in the class? history book. You can ask your How would you have felt at that English teacher the meaning of a time if you had been the teacher? word instead of finding it in a As teachers, they could only dictionary. You can also ask your T E A C H E R
= top-notch = excellent = awesome = confident = helpful = encouragement = remember
math teacher for the result of an Teachers are the ones you need addition you are doing instead of to remember. Remember all the using a calculator, etc. good things they have done and throw away the bad. We should The most important point is be grateful to all teachers for their encouragement. One person help. needs another person’s encouragement to succeed at To sum up, we should undersomething. And that is what the stand the importance of the teachers usually give us. No teachers. If you feel aversion matter how awful your project is, towards your teachers, please teachers will still say something mull it over again. There aren’t nice, such as “that is a gaily any teachers who intend to decorated project!” This depress their students. Their doesn’t mean they are lying to hearts are full of love, care and you; they just don’t want to upset encouragement……..so wish you. Once you are down, they’ll them luck, health and longevity on teacher’s day. pull you up. By Lymei Sun (9-E)