文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。这篇文章介绍了在毛里求斯岛上的一位教师Danielle Zelin,在她的家中创办了自己的学校Language Mood English Club。
Not all classrooms are in school buildings. As we have learned, classrooms can be created almost anywhere that teachers and learners are able to connect, in person or virtually.
For Danielle Zelin, who teaches on the island of Mauritius, the classroom is in her home, and all around it. Danielle runs her own school the Language Mood English Club and as a result as freedom to take the curriculum(课程)in many directions, and sometimes that means looking right outside. Danielle’s school started as a club on Saturday mornings, with a focus on storytelling, but she now teaches classes to individuals and groups, mainly in the afternoons and evenings after school.
“I always know I want to teach,” she said, but it wasn’t always clear that English would be her area of expertise(专业知识). As a teenager growing up in Mauritius, she struggled to see the point of reading Shakespeare in her English classes. “That English is old,” she told her mother; “I will not use it in my daily life.” At the time, she much preferred reading French literature.
Years later, though, Danielle saw a performance of The Merchant of Venice, which she had studied in secondary school, and its power became clear to her. She didn’t have to memorize lines, answer questions, or analyze for a test; she just enjoyed the play and the performance.
In a sense, that is the spirit that she carries into her current teaching. Her students arrive after a day of school, often tired, “So my place is more like a fun place to do like an English Adventure - I like to call it that. We do so many different things together,” she said. She and the students sometimes brainstorm things they want to study or discuss, and often her students tell her, “We want to connect to the world.” As a result, they frequently study current events and local issues.
4. What is the function of the first paragraph?
A.To lead in the story |
B.To arouse reader’s interest |
C.To show the author’s attitude |
D.To indicate the background of the story |
5. What can be learned about Danielle from paragraph 2?
A.She once taught students for free |
B.She used to have classes on weekdays |
C.She set her classroom only at home years ago |
D.She focused on storytelling in her class before |
6. What made Danielle interested in English?
A.Shakespeare’s books. |
B.Her mother’s influence |
C.A show of The Merchant of Venice |
D.Her inner eager to read literature |
7. Why are current issues concerned in Danielle’s class?
A.Her students want to brainstorm |
B.Her students want to contact the world. |
C.Danielle wants to make her class adventurous |
D.Danielle wants to carry out her teaching spirits. |