Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 3.
We are talking about motivation, inspiration.
Let's go. How can online teaching motivate students to learn?
Well, it certainly opens up a ton of avenues in terms of resources and flexibility, maybe access.
Teachers can use a load of different materials to engage students as opposed to just one textbook, which is what they tend to use in a physical classroom.
And the students can access more teachers, so they don't have to put up with what might be drier approaches in their own countries.
Assuming they get the right person, that could be very encouraging.
Besides parents and teachers, who else can motivate children?
I suppose their peers are the next most significant influence, since we always hear about this... concept of peer pressure, which can make kids do all kinds of activities, not always the ones in their best interests.
Other than that, maybe role models? Though I'm not so sure about that.
Maybe the influence is more indirect there.
What kind of international news inspires people?
Oh wow, I wish I could say it was more positive press, but people have this inbuilt negativity bias, which means it's probably the news of impending doom and gloom, which makes them more likely to take action in protest of something or to prevent something from happening.
For example, all the news about various natural disasters always seems to inspire a flood of charity donations.
Who can influence children more? teachers or parents.
Well, as a teacher, I would love to say it's people in my profession, but it's probably parents just by virtue of the sheer volume of time their kids spend in their presence.
Um, You might get eight hours a day in school, but the rest is 16 hours in a home built and maintained by your folks.
So there's not really any competition there. definitely the parents why should children learn from role models Oh god, I'm not sure they should, really.
These abstract models of perfection and ideal behavior very swiftly collapse under even minor scrutiny.
But I can see why people think we should.
Having an ideal to strive towards could be Venus-inspiring. even if their lives and what took them to such heights don't really exist in the lives of the people who worship them.
Well, whatever is seen as a culturally appropriate model of success.
In the West, that's largely people who are seen as wealthy or intelligent. maybe talented in the mainstream, and people who work hard, whatever that is supposed to mean or look like, I'm not a big fan of role models as a concept really, to be honest with you.
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See you soon! Teachers can use a load of materials.
A load of means a lot of. To engage students.
Engage makes students more active. And when we talk about creating... ways to do things.
We open up avenues or we open up opportunities.
That means to create more. Yeah, but could you give some examples?
Yeah, sure. Education opens up lots of avenues.
So you can do more. The more you know, the more you can do or the more choices you have.
And exactly what materials could a teacher use online?
Oh, videos. This podcast, please, if you're a teacher... Online quizzes, online games...
Yes. So lots of things that you can't really use in a classroom.
Although I have to say, if I'm given a choice, Oh, I don't know.
I quite like physical classrooms. However, this is because I have not been in one in a while.
And as we record this, I am two days away from a two-month summer school course.
So ask me again in two months time how I feel about teaching in a classroom and I might say, no, no, online is fine. yeah listen our rory will go somewhere to teach offline and worry where are you going I'm going to Oxford.
I'll teach at St Clair's. It's a private school.
Of course you will. Rory is a teacher in Oxford.
Okay. Temporarily. Let us temper this with reality.
Besides parents and teachers means like Parents, teachers, who else?
So if not only parents and teachers, then who else?
So besides means kind of in addition, additionally to parents and teachers, Who else can motivate children?
And we say that their peers. Beers are children of the same age.
They're not necessarily the friends. They're in the same social circle.
Peer pressure is this pressure that children feel from their peers to do all kinds of activities.
So if everyone has a smartphone, a child must have a smartphone.
So peer pressure. I thought you were going to just to stop there.
Peer pressure is pressure. It's pressure from peers.
And also children usually have role models.
And some questions could be about role models.
And a role model could be Parents, teachers, friends, peers, celebrities, anyone.
A role model is I see one word. a person who someone admires whose behavior they try to copy.
So children tend to copy role models. For example, athletes, sports stars are role models for thousands of children.
So children wants to copy their role models like bloggers, influencers, celebrities, actors.
But I hate role models. Yeah, you do. I'm not a big fan.
Yeah, we don't like role models. Do you not like them either?
No, I think you should be your own model.
Well, but I guess that any person should have an instructor, a teacher, a person.
Yeah, but that's different to being a role model. role model though.
But if you admire a person, like if you want to copy certain behaviors, they are kind of your role model, right?
But I'm thinking of this about like having a teacher, an instructor, a master, you know, like maybe a coach.
It may not be your friend, but some person who inspires you to do things, who teaches you.
It's kind of more personal. That's more a guide than someone to base your life on.
A guide? Hmm, yeah, a guide. Of course, role models would probably say that's what they are, but I don't know about that.
A strange question about international news.
International news inspires people? What?
Does the news inspire people? I don't know.
I don't understand this question. Well, it makes them do things.
Hmm. So if I learn that, I don't know, international news, If you learn that there's some good things happening in the world, then that might make you want to copy those actions, for example.
Maybe. But again, how we define goodness in terms of actions is difficult at best.
And a good strategy is to say, I wish I could say it was like, I wish I could say, but I can't say so.
I wish I could be positive here. But unfortunately, I can't be positive.
It's all like negative because news is usually something about negative stuff. and you can say that i wish i could say that news inspires people and careful news eat News inspires, news gives, news shows and it inspires.
So news it inspires. But usually news gives us a lot of negativity.
For example, news about natural disasters. like floods fires they don't seem to inspire people much or they inspire people to donate money to charity, so news about natural disasters usually inspire. a flood of charity donations it's interesting you use the a flood of charity donations like a lot of I didn't and then I talked about natural disasters that was not intentional i promise you natural disasters inspire and inspire floods And that's true, yeah, like when people learn about floods, fires, some other disasters.
They want to donate money to help people in need.
So this is a very good example of how international news inspires people. charity, donations, helping people in need, helping people who lost their homes or who need food, money.
Yeah, and this is quite common nowadays.
Teachers influence children or their peers influence them. or children's friends influence them so the word is to influence somebody but Friends have an influence on children. careful so parents influence children more no proposition but parents have a greater influence on children And Rory tells us that parents influence children more by virtue of the sheer volume of time. much time they spend with them.
Yeah, so children spend most of the time with their parents, so that's why parents.
I think so anyway. And a synonym for parents is like folks.
So they're folks, infants, children more.
Quite informal, but yeah, you can use it, folks, meaning parents. children want to copy children usually copy their role models celebrities and they learn what They learn different behaviors.
They learn what to wear, what to say, some kind of philosophy.
Well, do they? Yeah, but Rory is against role models.
So actually, I didn't understand how you answered this question.
So like, what should children learn? Or you're saying that they don't learn anything at all?
Well, I'm saying I don't think so. That's why I said I'm not sure they should do this.
However, I did say I can understand why people might think that that's a good idea.
And some children worship. role models so they worship bloggers influences or pop stars they worship like oh that a person is like a god And they create this ideal of a person who they worship.
So this is not quite good. At least I don't think so.
Other people may have different opinions.
And there are different qualities that a role model could have.
For example, they could be intelligent, talented, They could have a lot of money, but well, it's not a quality, but well, still.
Well, money could be considered a quality, but it's just not a very good one.
Or at least again, I don't think so. Yeah, then like they could be charismatic, confident. positive so these are all qualities like hard working they work hard optimistic Healthy, for example Respectful Everything that Maria and I are But then you can say that I'm not a big fan of role models as a concept.
So Rory is not into all this like role models.
Rory copies himself. So he just That's not quite what I said.
Yeah, but if you're not into role models, You don't copy anybody, you don't like worship anybody, so you kind of decide for yourself, right?
Yeah. more thought or independence when it comes to defining yourself and how you should live your life.
Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you in our next episode.
Bye! How can online teaching motivate students to learn?
Well, it certainly opens up a ton of avenues in terms of resources and flexibility, maybe access.
Teachers can use a load of different materials to engage students as opposed to just one textbook, which is what they tend to use in a physical classroom.
And the students can access more teachers, so they don't have to put up with what might be drier approaches in their own countries.
Assuming they get the right person, that could be very encouraging.
Besides parents and teachers, who else can motivate children?
I suppose their peers are the next most significant influence, since we always hear about this... concept of peer pressure, which can make kids do all kinds of activities, not always the ones in their best interests.
Other than that, maybe role models? Though I'm not so sure about that.
Maybe the influence is more indirect there.
What kind of international news inspires people?
Oh, wow. I wish I could say it was more positive press, but people have this... built negativity bias which means it's probably the news of impending doom and gloom which makes them more likely to take action in protest of something or to prevent something from happening.
For example, all the news about various natural disasters always seems to inspire a flood of charity donations.
Who can influence children more, teachers or parents?
Well, as a teacher, I would love to say it's people in my profession, but it's probably parents just by virtue of the sheer volume of time their kids spend in their presence.
Um, You might get eight hours a day in school, but the rest is 16 hours in a home built and maintained by your folks.
So there's not really any competition there. definitely the parents why should children learn from role models Oh god, I'm not sure they should, really.
These abstract models of perfection and ideal behavior very swiftly collapse under even minor scrutiny.
But I can see why people think we should.
Having an ideal to strive towards could be Venus-inspiring. even if their lives and what took them to such heights don't really exist in the lives of the people who worship them.
Well, whatever is seen as a culturally appropriate model of success.
In the West, that's largely people who are seen as wealthy or intelligent. maybe talented in the mainstream, and people who work hard, whatever that is supposed to mean or look like, um i'm not a big fan of role models as a concept really to be honest with you
