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Intro

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• inspire
• teacher's pet
• the case
• no luck

• shape
• order
• push
• move on

• look up
• kindergarten

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Teachers are some of the most important people in our lives. A good teacher can get you excited about a topic you never liked before, or help you develop habits you never forget. At some point in your life, a teacher shaped who you are.

It can be hard to be a good teacher and be liked at the same time. Teachers have to maintain order in their classroom and push their students to work hard. Teachers who can do this and somehow make it fun are likely to be someone’s favorite teacher.

No matter how much you like a teacher though, eventually you finish their class and move on. Sara has a special teacher from years ago who she still thinks about often. Learn education English in this English lesson as Sara tells Mason about her favorite teacher.

Dialog

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Sara

Mason

Sara:  The other day I went on Facebook and I actually tried to find my favorite teacher from kindergarten.

Mason:  Kindergarten? Your favorite teacher? I don’t believe you remember back that far!

Sara:  Yeah, I mean, she was just such a great teacher. I’d say she inspired my love of learning.

Mason:  I don’t mean this with any disrespect, but how much influence can a kindergarten teacher have on a child? What, you’re like, five, in kindergarten?

Sara:  Yeah but I think really, for me, the biggest thing was that she taught me to read, and I’m just a huge reader, and I’m a writer. So she really just inspired that love of reading in me.

Mason:  Right on. Did you kind of become something of a teacher’s pet?

Sara:  Maybe. I think that may have been the case. You know, at the time, of course, I always wanted her attention because I thought that…it just felt great to learn from her. But I may have been a bit of a teacher’s pet.

Mason:  So did you end up finding her on Facebook?

Sara:  No, I didn’t. There was no luck. She was British, actually. I was in the United States but she was British, so I tried looking up her name and the word “England,” but it didn’t help.

Mason:  Oh, so she was like your Mary Poppins?

Sara:  Yes, basically she was my Mary Poppins. But I’ll have to just let her live on in my memory, because I’m not going to find her on the Internet.

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