Reply to A Student

Mr. X,

    Happy Teachers’ Day to you! I won’t forget this special day for you no matter how busy I am. Thanks for your hard work for our English.

Never shall I forget the day when I told you that I decided to return to our class forever. It’s my luck and welfare to sit in the familiar classroom, studying with my dear classmates and having your class. It’s you that make me develop English into my lifelong goal. So crazy am I learning English that I can’t live with English.

    I did badly in the month exam. I feel very shamed and sad because I let you down. But please, don’t lose heart on me! I need your support. You’ll never know how important your expectation is！I am walking in an endless desert, and I need care and encouragement to cheer me up to get out of the desert.

    Lack of confidence, sometimes I would sit on my chair, wondering what my future will be. All I thought is about English. Such as I have become a famous interpreter, which is the person I want to be most in the future. But when I thought of my poor maths and physics, I felt like falling down from a high mountain, with my dream broken into pieces. I hate these subjects so much because they make my life dark and terrible. Although every one says interests are the best teachers. But I simply have no interest in these like I do in my English class. Depressed as I am, I have to go on working until the day I graduate and enter a good college, isn’t it?

    I hope I haven’t take up much of your time and bring you trouble. Thanks for your listening to my complains. After all, today is your festival and make sure you enjoy yourself!

                                                     Yours sincerely,

                                                               T.

Miss T,

    Life is a contest just like marathon which requires prolonged efforts and endurance. In no way should you mind success or failure, position ahead or behind for the moment. You needn’t “feel very shamed and sad”. You are too serious. Take it easy, little girl! Can’t you remember that saying “Who laughs best who laughs last”?

    You said you had no interest in maths or physics. I think it is natural and that is not your fault. A person’s energy can not unlimited and you can’t do well in all subjects. What’ more, you do much better than before. Once you are admitted to a college, you will even give up learning the two subjects. Maybe they are not in the range of your optional courses.

    I am very glad you want to be an interpreter and l believe you will manage to be someday. You were born with languages and you areintelligent and studious. But in my opinion, you needn’t devote yourself to English in the future, because as far as l know, it is heavily populated in this area, that is, too many people are learning English. There might be tougher pressure and challenges in applying for jobs. You may choose one from French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and even Arabic. Our country is in greater need of people who speak rare languages. Those are more welcome who are good at a certain technology and know one foreign language or several. Of course, it will be decided until next year.       

    In a world, I believe in you----not only past, now but future!

                                                                 X.