mell scrie:
20. Speak about a day in your life when something happened and changed your life.
"Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great things, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows !" ( Charles Reade )
Introduction :
- most of the times the days of our lives pass one after another in a row alike ( which is that boring daily routine );
- some other times the days of our lives pass one after the other shortly interrupted by sweet glimpses of novelty;
- still some very rare times the days of our lives pass one after another blissfully split by some diamond-like life-lessons;
Development :
A. An Unusual Lesson :
- it is about such very rare times in the days of my school life blissfully split by some diamond-like life-lesson that I am going to speak about;
- I was in the 7th grade;
- I mysteriously happened to like and love my English teacher, mostly because she had that rare talent of offering us good life lessons;
- she had a book of lessons from which she used to read us, besides the text-book that we had to study for the class;
- the book she used as extra material for our classes was : Donn Byrne's "Intermediate Comprehension Passages";
- that day one of our classmates was absent from school, and he had been absent for three weeks;
- noticing this, our teacher announced she was going to read us Passage no. 5 from her special book .
B. A Special Text-Book :
- our teacher invited us to enter her special text book and she entered there with us;
- her story was something like this :
- the children stopped chattering as Miss Hughes entered the classroom;
- then they stood up as one body and greeted their teacher;
- Miss Hughes smiled, greeted them too and told the class to sit down;
- as she was their new teacher, all the pupils were watching her intently, waiting no doubt to find out what sort of a person she was;
- the teacher was about to introduce herself, but they told her her name before she could have the chance to do it;
- it was a high-spirited moment;
- then the teacher opened the attendance register and called their names in turn;
- when she came to the last name on the list, namely John Young, she noticed that he had been absent for over a month;
- she asked the children what was the matter with their absent classmate;
- the children answered that he was in hospital, because he had slipped on the ice and had broken his leg;
- the teacher asked them if anyone had been to see him in hospital,
- all the children got startled by their teacher's strange question;
- but no one replied, which meant that none of them had been willing to visit him in hospital;
C. A Precious Life-Lesson :
- it was time to start the lesson;
- so it seemed to me the teacher was about to start talking about "the present perfect continuous tense", when one of my classmates begged her to tell us a story;
- "but aren't you curious to know how John White's classmates reacted after their new teacher troubled them with her "strange" question ?";
- "Yes, of course we all want to know !" we answered.;
- Miss Hughes promised to tell them a story, only if they all wrote some nice letters to John White, which they were to read to him that very afternoon when they were going to visit him in hospital;
- and this is what we are going to do this very afternoon with your classmate that has been absent from school for more than 3 weeks and whom no one of you has visited so far;
- and this is what we did that very afternoon with our classmate in hospital;
- and this is what we did from that day on every time the situation required it;
Conclusion :
- some days of our lives are very special for us due to some special things that happened to us;
- some teachers of ours are very special for us because besides their usual lessons they teach us some important life lessons;
- I never forgot and will never forget that very special day, for its very special moment and for my very special teacher who taught us to be "real" people;
- I understood my teacher's good intentions only when I happened to be in hospital and felt the joy of being visited by my classmates;
- so from that day on I started joyfully applying my teacher's "special lessons" to all those specific life's situations that fitted them;