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English for Academics Book 2 Teacher’s Guide
© Cambridge University Press and British Council Russia 2015
www.cambridge.org/elt/english-for-academics
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Lesson 1
Module 3
Teacher 2: Well, the challenges are never as new as they seem. 
Er, I think it’s still very important for every teacher to be a 
learner. Every teacher should be ready to learn from every 
lesson and from every student, and to be as good at learning 
as at teaching because in this way the teacher sets a good 
example for learners.
And we shouldn’t pretend that as teachers we know 
everything. It’s … in the modern age, it is not possible to know 
everything. There are so many different fields of knowledge 
that you can’t know everything. And it’s better to admit that 
to your students because sometimes they can teach you. 
And then the third thing which has been important since 
the time of the Ancient Greeks is questioning. I mean, it’s 
so important for a teacher to master good questioning 
techniques. Er, Socratic questioning is a well-known method 
of questioning when a teacher asks questions and involves 
learners in thinking. A good question makes students think. 
And a teacher should always be ready to challenge students 
with questions which are not just simply, er, knowledge 
questions but questions which make the student er, analyse, 
synthesise, evaluate, er, think at a higher level.
So these are three things which I think are tremendously 
important in education.
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