教育类话题涉及的几个方面1. 家庭与孩子2. 教师，学习与孩子3. 孩子的自主学习4. 过去与现在的教育区别5. 科学知识和道德品质6. 教育与工作，成功2010教育自主学习（learner autonomy）1. Agree or disagree, parents today are more involved in their children’s educationthan they were in the past.让步现在教育更被重视，社会重视，所以家长在乎，自然管的多转折现在竞争压力大，父母工作忙，没时间，管的少2. Agree or disagree, it is better for children to choose the jobs of their parents.让步：好，赢在起跑线上，能做的好，父母有经验转折：孩子不想做，反而效果不好，应该让孩子遵照自己的兴趣走3. Agree or disagree, children should play sports only for fun, children should notattend competitions.4. Agree or disagree, improving schools is the most important factor in successfuldevelopment of country?5. Agree or disagree the best way for parents to make the children learn aboutresponsibility is to have children care for an animal?让步：好，陪伴，产生感情，让孩子对自己的孩子负责（responsible）转折：学习忙，养宠物对学业不负责，更好的方式培养responsibility，比如给小弟弟小妹妹补课，不仅培养responsibility，还能巩固学业6. Agree or disagree, students should not take part-time jobs when they are in theuniversity.让步:有钱学生，不用，把精力放在学习上转折：家里困难：需要让步：低年级：把大部分精力放在学习上高年级：可以参加，快毕业，快要步入社会，重要20111. Agree or disagree, it is much easier for parents to raise children than it was 50years ago.让步：现在容易，互联网，可以在网上online community查找资料，与其他父母交流转折：过去容易，现在one child policy，现在环境差，食品不健康，生病现在 Internet, 信息多，孩子容易学坏双刃剑：1、one child policy好处：省钱，减少压力，国家人口压力坏处：2. Agree or disagree, movies and televisions should always show audience goodpeople are being rewarded and bad people are being punished.3. Agree or disagree, high school students should take some basic economycourses.有兴趣学，好处是对金钱有更好的意识，管理钱，有益于找工作，为大学打下基础（商科）不喜欢，没兴趣，枯燥，不要逼着学，1、学不好，丧失信心，其他科目怎影响整体的学业成功overall scholastic success获得更好的工作Gain acceptance to more prestigious position20121. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: The main role of auniversity professor is to educate students rather than to do research.让步段：教学生重要文科：art转折段：做研究重要理科：science基础学科：basic science; applied science让步：引领学生进入专业的领域，重要，对学生，培养出优秀的学生才能接教授的班，对国家发展有好处，如果professor 不教博士生，没人教，lecturer 交不了博士生：ph. D student(哲学博士) doctor of philosophy研究生：Master student本科生：Bachelor student转折：做实验重要，国家的成功发展依靠于科技创新technological innovation，来源于研究，没有教授做实验就没有科技创新，国家只有professor 有能力去做实验2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is easier for morepeople now than in the past to get an education.一边倒1、科技发展，生产力提高，一个农民种的地就够了，就不用所有人都种了2、社会公平的发展，现在女孩子已经可以上学了，过去不可以分类：发展中国家例：中国，现在发展了，比过去容易发达国家：美国，现在不必过去容易，一样难3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is the best way forteachers to make students more interested in a subject by explaining to them that this subject will help them in their life outside of the school.让步：大学生是这样，快进入社会，如果解释数学重要，将来能赚钱，能提高兴趣转折：小学生不是，nature,离去赚钱工作太遥远，没有，提高兴趣，讲课更幽默，讲究方法4. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Reading a student doeson his/her own is as important as, or even more important than reading a student does because it is assigned by teachers.Do reading(读书的行为)学生自己自发要读的书比老师让他们读的更重要让步：小学生，不能自己选，无法区分，年纪小，让老师帮助，如果自己选，那有可能选择漫画等没有帮助的书转折：大学生对自己的了解更全面，不能让老师选，可能对他们自己没有帮助5. Parents should allow children to make mistakes and let them learn from their ownmistakes.分类：错误6. Which of the following do you agree with? Parents should help children to do theirwork or they should encourage children to do their work independently.让步：对于young children，应该，年纪太小，有些事情不会，完成不了作业就会被老师批评，被同学笑话，减少信息转折：对于older children, 不应该，读了几年书，有基本的能力，自主学习能力，减轻家长信息让步：有些作业children 自己能完成转折：有些不能，抓蝴蝶的标本7. Agree or disagree, teachers in the past had more influences on the youth thanteachers at present.8. Agree or disagree, if parents want their children to perform well in school，theyshould limit the hours that their children spend watching TV．让步：有些孩子有良好的self control, 有自主学习能力，有计划，规定自己什么时候看电视转折，有些孩子没有，会无休无止得看，家长需要，不耽误学习9. Should school focus more on purchasing new equipments or recruiting goodteachers?分类：学科让步：basic science，有实验室，做实验，方便，没有实验室没法做实验，教学就不能发展例子：哥哥，物理学生，选大学选实验室好的，这样他感兴趣的话题就有机会展开Large Ion Collider Experiment（离子对撞机），全世界只有三台，哥哥需要这种机器做实验，所以对他很重要，选择了美国的学校，因为美国有。

转折：art，不需要什么设施，老师很重要，精神学科，老师自身的魅力很重要20131. Parents should spend time with their children helping them with schoolwork ratherthan playing games and sports.2. Parents learn more from children than children learn from parents.让步：家长从孩子身上学到一些新出现的东西newly-emerged technology，因为孩子有curiosity, 还可以从孩子身上得来positive attitude转折：孩子从家长身上学得多（academic knowledge, code of conduct）3. Students can use their mobile phones to surf on the internet or listen to the musicwhile doing their homework.4. Students' activities do as much benefit as academic study.分类：学生年龄让步：对于大学生，是，快要进入社会，social activities 可以结交人脉，对将来的工作很重要转折：小学生如果academic performance 不好，光social activities 好，不能顺利升学不分类让步：social activities 重要，积累人脉转折：academic performance 重要，只有专业领域能力强，以后才能找到工作，对以后要好处only when somebody own excellent knowledge in one field can he gain acceptance to a decent and prestigious position in the future.5. It is less important to eat with families regularly nowadays.让步：过去更重要，过去没有互联网，人们之间只有面对面的交流，唯一增进家人感情的方式，现在可以打电话，视频转折：现在重要，面对面的交流face-to-face interaction是不可取代的（indisputable）6. Parents now spend too much time on determining the future of their children;children should be allowed to make their own choices.让步：现在孩子应该自己决定，最清楚自己喜欢什么，如果家长逼着他们做自己不喜欢的事情，那么就会减少他们的信心转折：一些孩子不知道自己应该做什么，家长应该给建议7. Some students prefer to have their final grades determined by numerous smallassignments, whereas others prefer to have their final grades determined by onlya few large ones. Which do you prefer and why?分类：分学科觉得有用的学科，分很多次考试来定结果，有好成绩，因为平时一直认真学Useless 学科，学校设为必修课（compulsory course）,考前突击，一次考试，不用浪费这么多时间在上面，如果分多次就会成绩很差，因为平时没有花很多时间在上面8. It’s m ore important for the government to spend money to build art museums andmusic performance centers than to build recreational facilities (such as swimming pool and playgrounds).让步段：建美术音乐博物馆有利于教育，加深人们对美好事物的体验，对生活充满positive attitude转折段：recreational facilities 提高公众身体健康，身体素质，减少政府压力9. Young people today are more likely to give time and effort to improve the worldthan young people were in the past.10. Young people nowadays are more willing to help others.11. Should children spend most time playing and studying or they should be requiredto help the family with household chores, like cooking and cleaning.分类：年纪让步：young children(5),太小，没有能力做家务，给他带来危险，让他玩，更开心，交朋友，学习转折：older children(11/12),有能力，做家务，减轻父母的负担，培养家庭责任例子：我小时候妈妈不让我做家务，长大了让，给奖励，高兴12. People today do not respect their teachers as much as they did in the past.让步：现在不尊重，老师不是知识的唯一来源，互联网；一个孩子一生老师多，几十个学生而过去是一个老师带一个学生时间长，知识，行为准则转折：现在教育受重视，老师扮演着很重要的角色，如果小学老师不好，孩子就上不了好中学、大学、影响就业，现在家长花很多钱给孩子请好老师teacher plays a more important role in children's future success.13. All school teachers should be required to take courses every five years to updatetheir knowledge.14. Teachers' performance should be evaluated by students rather than by otherteachers.分类：年龄让步：小学老师，应该其他老师，孩子没有判断能力，老师长得好看，声音好听，不让他们学，让他们玩，就觉得好，不一定好转折：大学老师，现在的大学教育从teacher centered 转变成student-centered,大学生自己有判断能力，知道自己能不能学到东西。