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IELTS Model Answers

A Teacher Who Really Inspired You

Academic

Speaking Part 2

EducationPeople

Question

Describe a teacher who inspired you. You should say who the teacher was, which subject he or she taught, and explain what made this teacher different from your other teachers.

Model Answer

I would like to talk about my high-school physics teacher, Ms Tran. She taught us mechanics and also ran an optional . In class she did not only read the textbook. She used simple home experiments, like balls on a track, to show the ideas in real life. she was different because she was patient and remembered each student’s name, even in a class of more than thirty. I worked harder in physics because I did not want to let her down. Her enthusiasm stayed with me when I chose science-related modules later on.

Glossary

after-school club

An extra activity at school, outside normal lessons, for students who choose to go.

Rather than

A connector for contrast: to show what someone chose instead of another path.

I think

A simple hedge that softens a claim, common in IELTS Speaking to sound natural rather than over-confident.

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