Question
Describe a teacher who has a great influence on you.
Sample answer
I consider myself lucky to get several very good teachers throughout my academic years. Among them I'd like to talk about Mr. Smith who was an extraordinary teacher, a really good mentor and who has a great influence in my education.
I met Mr. Smith when I was in class 4 and he was our math teacher. Initially we thought that he would be a moody teacher and we would have to be very polite in front of him. This impression came mostly because of his serious face and tidy dress-up. But soon we found that, he is a very friendly person and teaches us very well. He never made things complicated and tried over and over again to explain something to us. He had a very unique way of teaching. Seems like he would start an interesting story and later we would find that he would relate the math with the story. Thus everything we learned from him was interesting and that's why we remember most of the theory and techniques of math he taught us.
I'd say he has a great influence in my education because he made a very strong foundation on Mathematics. Later on I studied Science and the Mathematics was the most important subject. I have always been good at math and that' mainly because of Mr. Smith who had a major role on making the subject interesting to me. Before I learned math from Mr. Smith, my impression on math was not good and I considered mathematics to be a very difficult and uninteresting subject. But his teaching and influences changed my way of thinking about math and later on math became my one the most favourite subject.
Tips for answering this cue card question:
Talk about a teacher you remember and liked. Say his/her name and which class/ grade s/he taught. Also mention which subject she taught and what have you learned from him/ her. Following are some of the reasons a teacher becomes influential for a student that you can talk about:
If you can answer this cue card, you should be able to answer the following topics as well:
1. Talk about a person from your childhood whom you still remember.
2. Describe a teacher from your school/college whom you want to meet.
3. Talk about your math/literature/history teacher from school.
4. Describe an old person who you admire.
5. Describe a subject taught in your school.
6. Describe a teacher who has helped you in your education greatly.
7. Describe an exemplary person from your home-town.
