It was a Sunday morning. I got up early and rushed out for bus at half past six. Obviously, it was not a usual day-actually,it was my first day as a teacher.
"It won't be a hard job." I thought after Mr. Lu phoned the week before, informing my being employed as an English teacher of a spare time school in which he was the director. I didn't find any difficulty in my new job：the texts were very simple and the students I was going to teach were only primary school pupils, which expelled my worry about making mistakes before them. However, I was afraid that I did not at all look like a teacher and as a result, the students, wouldn't listen to me.
I almost spent an hour and a half on the way to school. As soon as I arrived, I rushed to Mr. Lugs office. There, with some other new comers, I listened to Mr. Lugs explanation of working rules, teachers' duties and the curriculum. Everything was all right as I had wished until I came to the door of my class room. The bell had already rung, but the class was racketing as a rock contest. "How can I manage such a group of naughty children?" I hesitated and then stepped in.
It was a small class with altogether 20 students. Some boys were chasing each other madly in delirious glee while some girls were chatting loudly in an exceptionally sharp voice. Strange enough, as they noticed me, they all returned to their seats and stopped talking. The only reason I could think out for this was that I looked like a teacher, at least in their eyes, which was a great relief to me. After a brief self-introduction, I went on to give my first lesson in English as I had prepared. To my disappointment, all my little students put on a confusing face, their eyes full of puzzle. Someone murmured, "I don't understand."And all the others echoed with nodding. They were mostly in grade 5. I must have overestimated them. I switched to Chinese at once.
in control was a great challenge.
The first day of my teaching was not perfect but satisfying enough. Since then I had got to know how a teacher should perform and all the situations that a teacher would run into. Though my teaching has been much improved so far, the first day of the job still remains deep in my mind.
簡 評
師者，傳道、授業、解惑也。可是在實際教學中，卻會有許多難以預測的問題出現。本文作者介紹了自己初次當教師時所碰到的困難，但經過與學生良好的溝通，順利地解決了難題。
本文層次清晰，從一開始對教書工作不以為然“It won't be a hard job”，到初次接觸學生時感到緊張“How can l manage such naughty children?”，到遇到問題不知所措“I went out to the corridor trying to escape only to get trapped in a more intolerable surrounding”，到冷靜思考解決問題。思路很清晰，美中不足的是，作者對最後一個環節——如何應付頑皮的學生，使他們最後能專心聽課——沒有交待清楚。
整體來說，本文脈絡清晰、結構合理，可讀性較強。