I taught an online class Saturday.
It’s how I meet new students these days.
And I always get lots of interesting comments and questions in the chat.
“Are you really a native speaker?”
“Can you teach me for free?”
“Did you know your name means ‘happy’ in Hungarian?”
And then there’s the questions about tests.
“Do you give us a test at the beginning of your course?”
“How do I know what level I am?”
“Do you give us a test at the end of your course?”
And these questions always confuse me; what are they really asking?
Whenever I go home and drive my Dad’s car, the GPS tells me, “You have arrived at your destination.”
Is that what they want to know?
They want to know when they’ve arrived so they can stop?
Am I the GPS for English?
What do you think?
Comment time!
I think people are thought to learn in order to pass an exam or test.
Only when you pass the test, you have some kind of proof that you achieved your goal.
Much more important is what someone is going to do with that knowledge. Implementation is the biggest test for all of us!
Enjoy,
Snezana
It’s about the goal… interesting.
I think one question is missing. Are you real? I mean a human?
I laughed with tears.
Hello,
In my humble opinion, most of the questions are born especially from the education system.We are used to be evaluated, we don’t trust ourselves and we need someone to tell us; most of the time we don’t do things with pleasure and we look at the result or we are all in a hurry to get some kind of benefits, but we forget to enjoy the trip.
On the other hand, we tend to be greedy and we want the best result with no money and as soon as possible.
The robots are coming! 🙂
Victoria
Another problem that comes from schools!
As I know “Vig” doesn’t mean happy. “Víg” [vēg] means something like joky or “vígan” -cheerfully.
But it is difficult to translate, try to find it in google images or news :).
Students ask for a test because they are used to it since their school days. I have recently been teaching a German language course at a language school, teaching children between 10-16 years old. They all look forward to the test at the end of each lesson to see what grade they will get. But what is even more interesting – I see how the secretary and the school director diligently remind me not to forget about the test, because it is very important. Important obviously for the traditional school system where grades are almost everything. Not the knowledge, not the skills, but the assessment. That is why students ask you about the test, because according to them, the course will not be complete, it will not be of high quality, if they do not have a test. A matter of old habit if you will, but they will keep asking you for a test until the education system changes. And that’s unlikely to happen soon…
Hello, I think that people who want to do tests need a certificate to prove, I do not know what for example for their job. Yesterday I meet a friend of mine and she told me that her daughter needs to have a test to be promoted to a higher post. She speaks fluently, and she understands well but without a certificate, she will not be promoted.
Habits. Bad habits. We have that kind of experience. We were taught to ask those questions. During education he have to pass a test and get good marks.
We did not hear for your rule number 3: ” Love to speak English daily”