What do teachers expect from their students ? To get to know now about students, teachers often ask: " What do you expect from your teachers? " so we can say anything that we want from a teacher. For instance, what I expect from my English teacher is to have an interesting teaching method. I would be willing to answer what an interesting method is if you really want to know. But my topic today is an opposition, you know we-students can not make you-teachers satisfy if you do not tell us what to do. As I've seen students rarely ask their teachers what they expect from them ( properly they do not care ) but I do. So I would appreciate if you can tell me your opinions. Thank you in advance x

Asian Accent ? Hello everyone, I'm looking for some friends with whom I can practise speaking English. It actually isn't a big deal for me to chat in English, because I know quite a lot of slangs and idioms. But I find it so difficult talking to foreingers. I have a really bad accent actually. I just can't get out of my Asian accent. And when people don't understand me and ask me back: " Sorry, what did you say ? " I immediately feel so shy and disappointed and reply to them " Nothing" or " Never mind " then end up the conversation. That's reason why I have lots of overseas friends and talk to them fluently which is just on the internet, never in the real life. I'm also into British accent, I wish I had that accent, I think I can learn it aswell if I try my best. But the first thing I need to do now is to try to practise speaking English with someone and try to lose my Asian accent. I would appreciate if you guys could please help me. Thanks in advance.

Critical thinking Although I've searched on google for the meaning of ' critical thinking ' I still have no idea what it is. My English teacher actually cares about this problem, and he wants us to have critical thinking. But you know, in my country, students just focus on textbook, we don't have any chance to practise those knowledge in real. That's the reason why school life is boring to me -.- I want to ask all of you ( students and teachers ) what do you think about critical thinking ? How to make your students get on with having critical thinking ?