To be a good teacher,you need some of the talents of a good actor:you must be able to hold attention and interest of your students;you must be a clear speaker,with a good,strong,pleasing voice which is fully under your control;you must be able to act what you are teaching,in order to make its meaning clear.
A good teacher does't sit still before his class；he stands all the time while he is teaching;he walks about, using his arms,hands and fingers to help him in his explanations,and his face to express his feelings.Listen to him,and you will hear the loudness,the quality and musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean he will indeed be able to act well on the stage,for the re are very important differences between the teacher's work and the actor's.the actor has to speak words he has learnt by heart；he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part,even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand.What he has to do is to make all the se carefully learnt words seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way.His audience takes an active part in his play-the y ask and answer questions,the y obey orders,and if the y don't understand something,the y say no.the teacher the refore has to meet the needs of his audience.He can't learn his part by heart,because the ir brains couldn't keep discipline:the y couldn't keep strictly to what another has written.
1.If you want to be a good teacher,you should _____.
A.act out what you have learnt strictly
B.be a good actor on the stage
C.sit all the time while teaching
D.suit the need of different students
2.the underlined word talents in the first paragraph means _____.
A.methods
B.girls
C.wishes
D interests
3.In what way is a teacher's work different from that of an actor's?
A.the teacher must learn everything by heart.
B.He has to deal with unexpected situations.
C.He has to use more facial expressions.
D.He has to control his voice better than an actor.
4.the main difference between students and audience in the the atre is that students _____.
A.move around the class
B.keep silent all the time
C.take an active part in class
D.1ike body language
5.If Tom Hanks,the famous actor,would like to be a good teacher,he may need training in _____.
A.how to use body language
B.how to repeat his lines
C.how to be more quick-minded
D.how to be attractive
