The first impression I had on Ms. Jia yang was very impressive: a beautiful young lady with musical spoken English, and bright eyes smiling behind a pair of glasses. To me, this first impression of a female English teacher was fairly normal, and I thought to myself this lady possibly graduated from Beijing Foreign University.
Among the many lectures by Ms Yang's, I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs. The song was “My Heart will go on" by Celine Dion, and it was my first time to know the name of Celine Dion. From this song, teacher Yang taught us about the rhyme and rhythm of English songs. Maybe this is the original reason why I like English songs and only like English songs with lyrics that has proper rhyme and rhythm.
Late on, I noticed a detail that in every class, Teacher Yang’s Dad would lead she to the classroom and went away. It astonished me when I found that Teacher Yang could not see! I could not image how she walked to me, looked at me, listened and corrected my pronunciation, and even more, her chalk handwriting on the black board was smooth, beautiful, and as always, she came back to put the dot and slash exactly on top of the handwritten: “i " and “t” following the necessary words. How could you image a blind one doing these above? It was from that moment I felt shamed of myself: I got to learn English better!
Ms Yang went to Zhengzhou University when she was 15 years old, graduated and stayed at Zhengzhou University to teach English. Later on, she went to Chinese Academy of Sciences for her graduate study, and stayed at collage of graduate, CAS to teach English.
After my graduation, I did not pay much attention to Teacher Yang’s newly progress. I always reminded myself to improve my English bit by bit and day after day. Though I don’t make a huge progress, but I could proudly say I kept on learning it. It was until the passed Wednesday when I hosted Listening E-songs to practice listening skills that I found Teacher Yang made a huge progress on her career: she went to John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000 and earned her MPA degree in 2001. Now she is the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and more titles. I felt proud of Ms Yang, and I felt shamed for myself again. As I learnt from today’s one sentence translation: “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." and “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”. So, keep on leaning and never stops, not only in English but everything! This is my new year resolutions.
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speaking of English teacher, the best one in my life is no one else but her
At the very moment when I heard her voice the first time, I was so amazed that how could an American speak such perfect mandarin? Every English word coming out of the radio was nothing closed to the ones taught in school or even in the national radio English teaching program. That’s what the authentic English really is, finally I heard it in my own ears!
From then on, 8:30 every night I did nothing else but turned on the radio, tuned to VOA, in the next 30 minutes fully concentrated on it, enjoyed her translation in beautiful mandarin after her colleagues, really enjoyed every second of it until she said “ 这是何丽达在美国首都华盛顿主持播报的，then a deep male voice appeared: ”this is the voice of America, the next program is in English”. 30 some years late I still remember her word ”印第安老妪”， in the story of Tom Sawyer.
Thank you 何丽达小姐，Thank you VOA, it’s your voice brought me to this greatest land on earth. Miss you so so so much!
My English Teacher Ms Jia Yang
The first impression I had on Ms. Jia yang was very impressive: a beautiful young lady with musical spoken English, and bright eyes smiling behind a pair of glasses. To me, this first impression of a female English teacher was fairly normal, and I thought to myself this lady possibly graduated from Beijing Foreign University.
Among the many lectures by Ms Yang's, I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs. The song was “My Heart will go on" by Celine Dion, and it was my first time to know the name of Celine Dion. From this song, teacher Yang taught us about the rhyme and rhythm of English songs. Maybe this is the original reason why I like English songs and only like English songs with lyrics that has proper rhyme and rhythm.
Late on, I noticed a detail that in every class, Teacher Yang’s Dad would lead she to the classroom and went away. It astonished me when I found that Teacher Yang could not see! I could not image how she walked to me, looked at me, listened and corrected my pronunciation, and even more, her chalk handwriting on the black board was smooth, beautiful, and as always, she came back to put the dot and slash exactly on top of the handwritten: “i " and “t” following the necessary words. How could you image a blind one doing these above? It was from that moment I felt shamed of myself: I got to learn English better!
Ms Yang went to Zhengzhou University when she was 15 years old, graduated and stayed at Zhengzhou University to teach English. Later on, she went to Chinese Academy of Sciences for her graduate study, and stayed at collage of graduate, CAS to teach English.
After my graduation, I did not pay much attention to Teacher Yang’s newly progress. I always reminded myself to improve my English bit by bit and day after day. Though I don’t make a huge progress, but I could proudly say I kept on learning it. It was until the passed Wednesday when I hosted Listening E-songs to practice listening skills that I found Teacher Yang made a huge progress on her career: she went to John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000 and earned her MPA degree in 2001. Now she is the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and more titles. I felt proud of Ms Yang, and I felt shamed for myself again. As I learnt from today’s one sentence translation: “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." and “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”. So, keep on leaning and never stops, not only in English but everything! This is my new year resolutions.
Will she remember you?
Thanks for sharing!
Incredible! When god closes a door,He opens a window.
Some doors are not God’s will for our to enter them and God closes it for our protection.
speaking of English teacher, the best one in my life is no one else but her
At the very moment when I heard her voice the first time, I was so amazed that how could an American speak such perfect mandarin? Every English word coming out of the radio was nothing closed to the ones taught in school or even in the national radio English teaching program. That’s what the authentic English really is, finally I heard it in my own ears!
From then on, 8:30 every night I did nothing else but turned on the radio, tuned to VOA, in the next 30 minutes fully concentrated on it, enjoyed her translation in beautiful mandarin after her colleagues, really enjoyed every second of it until she said “ 这是何丽达在美国首都华盛顿主持播报的，then a deep male voice appeared: ”this is the voice of America, the next program is in English”. 30 some years late I still remember her word ”印第安老妪”， in the story of Tom Sawyer.
Thank you 何丽达小姐，Thank you VOA, it’s your voice brought me to this greatest land on earth. Miss you so so so much!
surprise ending. I may make some corrections later on, if you don't mind. Great job!
she's a wonderful woman.
Thanks for sharing!
Best wishes!
1. "I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs"
What I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs
2. "teacher Yang"
Ms Yang (better be consistant)
3. "lead she to the classroom and went away"
lead her to the classroom and leave (or go away) (would covers lead and leave/go away)
4. "following the necessary words"
following the necessary rules
5. "I felt shamed of myself"
I felt ashamed of myself
6. "I always reminded myself"
I always remind myself
7. "keep on leaning and never stops"
keep on leaning and never stop