My Days In Yale （3）

Winwin is a good lecturer, although her teaching method is somewhat dominating because she talks a lot in her class. However, I think it may depend on the level of the students. In Winwin’s class, all the students can only speak broken English, and they seem to enjoy Winwin’s lecture and learn some interesting things such as body language. Another enthusiastic professor is Kirk, who is so famous among us before I enter his class. He is rather good at involving all the students, including us, in all his activities. No wonder I also join in his “dance” of phonetics. He arranges the students to make presentations and tapes all their performance. Each time he will give some suggestions to their presentation skills. Alan is a true gentleman who is always polite and generous in sharing with us his way of teaching. Two methods are quite useful for me. He asks students to describe one event of the weekend without mentioning the place or activity, and the rest students try to guess. The other is 2 truths and 1 dream, i.e., students write down 3 sentences about themselves, 2 of which are true and 1 is a dream. Or a similar exercise, to write three sentences, two of which are lies and one is a truth. The other students try to guess the lies. If more people guess the lies, then he/she who provides the information is in the liar’s club. Then humorous Bob is good at rousing the interest of all the students. He focuses on the eye contact, body language and intonation in Students’ presentation. Different professors do have their own teaching styles and their class activities give me a lot of inspirations.