When I began teaching in a university,I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had 1 a long time learning what to teach,but not learning how to 2 it. Somehow,my university seemed to hope a weekend spent with experienced professors would 3 for that. My colleagues presented well-crafted lectures about the tools they used. I enjoyed their 4 , but do not remember a thing they said.
At a coffee break during the lectures,finding myself 5 , I turned to a mathematics professor standing near-by. I asked him what his favourite teaching 6 was. “A cup of coffee,” he said. “I talk too much and too fast in the classroom. Students sometimes have trouble 7 me. So when I've said 8 that I want my students to think about,I would 9 and take a sip of coffee. It lets what I've just said sink in. ”
When we were called to the next talk,he put down his cup and I 10 there was not a trace of coffee in it.
My doctor 11 me to stop drinking coffeehe explained. “So I have always used a (n) 12 cup. MI decided to try his 13 in my class.
I took a cup of coffee with me to my next class. It helped. My pauses,as I 14 the coffee,not only gave my students 15 to think about what I had said,but gave me time to think about what I was going to say next. I began to use my 16 to look around the room to see how my students were reacting to what I had just said. When I saw their 17 wander,! tried to bring them back. When I saw them puzzled over some concept that I thought I had 18 ,I gave another example. My 19 became less organised and less brilliant,but my students seemed to 20 me better.
1. A. wasted B. cost
C. killed D. spent
2. A. manage B. copy
C. teach D. consider
3. A. put up B. build up
C. take up D. make up
4. A. experiences B. plans
C. presentations D. designs
5. A. alone B. absent
C. lonely D. awkward
6. A. method B. material
C. tool D. skill
7. A. following B. grasping
C. seizing D. imitating
8. A. everything B. something
C. nothing D. anything
9. A. pretend B. stop
C. prevent D. delay
10. A. observed B. noticed
C. glared D. proved
11. A. suggested B. protected
C. allowed D. advised
12. A. empty B. clear
C. large D. false
13. A. discovery B. invention
C. magic D. idea
14. A. dropped B. made
C. drank D. changed
15. A. space B. time
C. room D. schedule
16. A. chances B. pauses
C. situations D. conditions
17. A. attention B. focus
C. energy D. devotion
18. A. translated B. expected
C. explained D. solved
19. A. speeches B. memories
C. documents D. lectures
20. A. realise B. understand
C. admit D. admire