11.Describe a time when you taught a friendrelative something

Describe a time whenyou taught a friend/relative something 教他人做事

You should say:

Who you taught

What you taught

How the result was

And explain how you felt about the experience

This topic refreshes my memory a few years back. So, my brothermigrated（移民）in the United States. During the summer vacation two years ago, he and hischildren came to visit us in China. His children, my niece and nephew, are bothveryinquisitive（好奇的）and eager to learn new things. They first glommed onto chessafter seeing me play it online one day. They requested me to teach them. They only come to China on rare occasions, so I figuredout（弄清楚）it would be asplendid（极好的）way to spend some quality time with them. They were only in townfor two months, so we had quite a while. For starters, I dipped them with thefundamentals, explaining how each piece moved in turn. With time, Iinfused（灌输）some of the complex mechanics like castling and enpassant. I also decided to buy themchess.com memberships so theycould work out（锻炼）on their own when Ihad a lot on my plate（忙碌）. The website contains somefascinating（吸引人的）puzzles that teach how to think inarduous（艰巨的）situations. They competed against computer bots as well asother gamers. Chess is all about practice, and the more different players theyplayed, the more they saged. They were quick to pick up on things and hadbeaten me twice or three times by the end of two months. In fact, they taughtme a few signature moves（招牌动作）. Overall, it was a veryrewarding（值得的）experience. It was probably the first time I taught someonesomething.

Part 3

1. What practical skills can young peopleteach old people?

Well, old people are a treasure trove of knowledge, and there isso much we can learn from them. However, with thebreakthrough（突破）of technology, adults appear to have been left out. That being said（也就是说）,to all intents and purposes（实际上）technology is the mostpromising（有前途的）skill that adults can learn from children. It's an open secretthat many elders haveintricacies（困难）in keeping up withadvanced（先进的）technology. Withperplexing（令人费解的）social media platforms andlimitless（无限的）mobile device capabilities, it appears that everything is goingdigital. Thus,accoutringthe elders with high-techerudition（学识）is just the ticket. Furthermore, as they get older, there are fewer activitiesavailable to them, and technology couldindulge（满足）them with compelling andeducative（有教育意义的）activities tofritter away（浪费）the time. Most pertinently, we mustproactively（先发制人地）inculcate（教育）the elderly on theimportance ofimbibing（接受）technology to connect with friends and family, especially who liveoverseas.

2. What skills can young people teach oldpeople besides technology?

Well, although I believe that technology is the mostwell-rounded（多才多艺的）skill that elders can learn from the youth, I believe that physical activity isincredibly vital（极其重要）.Physical activity isparamount（最重要地）for adults to learn andgetin on the act（加入）with youngsters. We used to climb, swing, jump, and play in the yard as kidsand young people enjoy mountain climbing, swimming, and travelling. Alas, asmobility becomes arduous, many seniors lose their desire to move. Elders canquickly becomeknackered（筋疲力尽的）, fatigued, ordisinclined（不愿意的）,making them less likely to bephysically agile every day.  As a result, they are more likely to developchronic illnesses（慢性病）such asAlzheimer's disease and dementia（阿尔茨海默病与老年性痴呆）,heart failure（心力衰竭）,depression（抑郁）, anddiabetes（糖尿病）, to name a few.  Therefore, it’scrucial to learn from younger generations that there aretop-hole（卓越的）ways to bevigorous（充满活力的）, and the relevance of staying vigorous.

3. How can young people teach old peopleskills?

Well, if there’s something that has been imprinted to my memoryabout my late grandma is that, teaching her was totally obscure（模糊的）.Teaching elders is not a piece of cake, however, it’s not to be ruled out; withtenacity（坚持）andbenevolence（仁爱）,it issurmountable（可能得）. I'd like to share somelucrative（有利可图的）methods for young people in edifying the elders. The first stepis tofurnish（提供）them withempirical（有经验的）information in a low tone of voice, vouch for（保证）a simple and concrete idea（具体想法）.Then allow substantial time（大量时间）for the information to beassimilated（理解）and full-inclusive. Finally, prevail upon them to be pertinentwith their lately procured knowledge by making the maucourant ofthe leverage they canderive（获得）from it. After all, life is meant to flux unceasingly and oughtnot to stagnate.

4. How can we know what to do when we wantto learn something new?

With the advent of technology, learning new things is at the tipof your finger. I'd like to mull over（仔细考虑）some proactive（主动的）approaches to acquainting something new in response to thisquestion. First is to enroll and take up a class, which can be pulled offthrough a mentor or self-study. Use an array of learning materials, such asbooks and online videos which are near at hand online or up the market. Second,learn by doing andexpediting（加快）the work of experts as a guide. This, by far, is the mostfinely tuned way tosubjugate（征服）some new learning. Ever heard of the saying use it or lose it?this approach explains it well. In addition, to hone your understanding of thesubject, try teaching someone else and giving yourself tests. Finally, create apractice timetable. Work in short bursts, practice frequently, andeliminate（消除）distractions,alsorequite（回报）yourself for your accomplishments.

5. Do you think showing is a better waythan telling in education?

Well, I believe that demonstrating（论证）, which is the process of teachingthrough examples or experiments, is a more appropriatemechanism（机制）for lecturing someone thantelling. To begin, displaying something is a simple way ofcapturing（获得）students' attention. For example,young students will easily focus on the class and grasp the knowledge if teachersshow them videos or pictures about the topic discussed. Apart from that, byemploying this teaching strategy, we are able to transmit not only contentknowledge but also a deeper understanding of systems. Telling, on the otherhand, is thefeeding（提供）of information without any realcontext for what students are doing or why. If teachers only teach studentsverbally, students will become tired and frustrated andcouldn't-care-less（不顾一切的）to learn from the teachers. The wordsare also relatively simple to forget. In a word, we can give the green light to（给……开绿灯）our students to make academicprogress and feel successful by demonstrating rather than telling them.

6. Do people in your country like to watchvideos to learn something?

Without a shadow of a doubt（毫无疑问）! People, like othernationalities, utilize the internet to learn various skills, such as videovlogs. On the one hand, viewing educational videos on various social mediaplatforms can assist internet users in learning something for free. Forexample, if they want to learn how to cook some delectable（美味的）dishes, they will use bilibili oryoutube to find relevant videos. They can watch aassortment（分类）of videos from various vloggers.Learning something through videos, on the other hand, can help people save timecommuting to the learning center and have a flexible time to watch videosinstead of going to school. Not to mention, it can prevent people from beings sick as a parrot（失望至极）if the videos do not guarantee toteach them something. In comparison, some institutions only waste people's moneywhile failing to promise to teach people some skills. Above all, I reckon（认为）that videos are used by the vastmajority of Chinese folks to broaden their horizons.