Describe asubject you didn't like before but have interest in now.

You should say:what it was

when you studiedthe subject

why you didn'tlike it before

and explain whyyou have interest in it now.

I’d like to talkabout Maths, which is now my favorite subject. I have studied Maths since I waseven in kindergarten. At that time I acquired the principles of simplecalculation. However, to be honest, I didn’t like it until I went to middleschool.

Now let me tellyou why I hated Maths in the past. You know before middle school, Maths thatstudents learn at school is all about calculation. As a result, we have to dolots of repeated and similar calculation exercises every day. I really hatedthose exercises because doing them was quite boring. In addition, when I was inprimary school, my Maths teacher was by no means gentle. On the contrary, shelost her temper regularly and if you made mistakes she would be quite angry andblame you instead of teaching you with patience. As a result, Maths was likenightmare to me.

However, thingschanged after I became a student of middle school. I found out that the worldof Maths was complex and the context was far more than calculation. I wasattracted by functions and geometry. It was really interesting to draw curvesfor each function and to discover the properties and feature of triangle,rectangle, circle and other shapes. Now I have learnt Maths for more than 15years and I get to know that maths is useful in many areas. For example, I am majoredin Economics and thanks to Maths, equilibrium of the market in differentsituations can be found by shifting the curves and calculating that point ineconomic models. I think the process of applying maths to specific cases isreally cool, so now I love it so much.

Part3

1.   Do you think teachers have agreat influence on students` studies?

Yes, I do.Teachers are people who impart various knowledge to you and more importantly,they teach us how to tell right from wrong. Especially when we were in kindergartenand primary school, teachers told us lots of rules so that we can always behaveproperly and have a moral compass. In addition, teachers are set as models forstudents and students tend to mimic what teachers do. This is also why eachschool requires teachers to be kind and moral. So, to conclude, teachers reallyplay an important role in our life.

2.   Do you think students shouldhave the right to choose the subject they like in university? Why or why not?

Yes I do.Actually because of the compulsory education, all of us have already learntevery basic subject including physics, chemistry, history and so on. In thiscase, university students have already known the field that they are interestedin. In my opinion, university should be a place where students can acquireprofessional knowledge of a specific field instead of learning lots of thingsbut not deeply enough. Therefore, I support the idea that students should havethe right to choose subjects they really want to learn. By doing so, they canstudy happily and spend all of their time on things they like indeed.

3.   Do you think students shouldspent more time on one subject or equally spend time on all subjects?

Well I think itdepends on the age of the students. For students of high school or younger, itis better to spend time equally on all subjects. This is because at this stage,they haven’t known the world completely. By learning each subject carefully,students can have a broad knowledge about the world where we live gradually. Inaddition, if they do not spend time on every subject, chances are that they maymiss their favorite subject. However, for students of university or older, moretime should be spent on one subject as university is the place whereprofessional knowledge can be acquired and improved. In this case, more timeshould be spent on the core subject that is related to the student’s major.

4.   What subject do you think willbe important in the future?

In my opinionsubjects related to science such as physics and chemistry. This is becausemodern science and technology plays a more and more important role in our life.It is because of lots of new invention that our life standard is improved. Forexample, nowadays we will not get lost thanks to the function of satellitenavigation. Many diseases which were fatal in the past can also he healed now.In addition, national defense also has every thing to do with technology level.Therefore it is important to impart knowledge related to science so that thenext generation can move even farther and the world can keep developing.

5.   Which subject do you thinkshould be optional/compulsory?

Well as for me,I think mother language of each country should be compulsory. If we cannot havea sound grasp of our mother language, we will have difficulty in communicatingwith others and gathering information. In addition, language is a key part ofculture and I believe it is everyone’s responsible to understand his or her ownculture throughly. On the other hand, subjects related to art should beoptional. Of course art is important which help students to cultivate a senseof beauty. However, it is torturing to force people who are poor at art to drawpictures or sing songs. Therefore, I think these subjects should not becompulsory.

6.   How do people get information aboutscience?

Well it depends.For children, knowledge of science mainly comes from books, parents andteachers. As for adults, they prefer to use the internet to know about theworld and nature. Nowadays, there are lots of free lectures given by famousprofessors available online, which is a good way to acquire knowledge. Also,sometimes, new invention or discovery would also be reported on newspapers andon tv programs and this is also a source of information about science forpeople who check news regularly.

7.   How can schools improve theirscience teaching?

First of all,schools can train science teachers regularly. By doing so, professionalknowledge of each teacher can be improved. Meanwhile, schools should provideteachers with chances where they can share teaching experience with each otherso that teachers can design the context of the class as well as homework in amore proper way. In addition, it is more important to inspire the interest ofstudents in science. By doing so, students would be eager to have science classes.Adding more experiences into lectures and taking students out of school toobserve plants and animals are good ways.

8.   Do you think boys do better inscience than girls? Why?

No, I don’tthink so. I think whether a person is good at science has nothing to do withgender. There are also lots of famous female scientists such as Mrs. Curie.Actually I believe everyone has one or more fields that he or she is good at.What really matters is that you should try your best to find out the field andthen work hard on it to be outstanding.

9.   Is there a lot of girlsinterest in science subjects? Why?

Of course thereare lots of girls who are interested in science. I think whether a person hasan interest in science has nothing to do with gender. In my opinion, interestof everyone is destined even before birth because of DNA. Also you may changeyour interest after birth because of other’s influence on you. For example, ifyour favorite singer likes to play the piano, then chances are that you alsowant to learn how to play it. Therefore, it is not strange that girls also likescience.

10.  What should wedo to learn science very well? Why?

First of all, weshould cultivate our interest in science. Try to accept it as interestingrather than boring and bothering. It is impossible for anyone to learn asubject well if you hate it. Then, it is also important to always followteachers at class so that we can understand those complex principles andtheories thoroughly. Lastly, we should always keep curious. That is whenever wefind out a natural phenomenon that we can’t understand we should turn toteachers or the internet for help. In this way we can have a broad knowledgeabout science gradually thus improving ourselves.