「影響你的老師」題最致命的寫法——She was very kind. She helped me a lot. I respect her. 這是三個形容詞 + 三個抽象動詞，完全沒有畫面。高分關鍵是「一個具體的課堂場景」——一節課、一句話、一個動作，就能把抽象的「影響」變得可見。
題卡
Describe a teacher who has influenced you.
You should say:
- who this teacher was
- what subject they taught
- when you studied with them
and explain how they have influenced you.
You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes.
POWER 準備筆記
- P — 誰？Ms Chen, my senior-high Chinese-literature teacher
- O — 何時？Years 10 and 11, so I was about 15-16
- W — 教什麼？高中國文（Mandarin literature）
- E — 感覺？Mildly terrified, then deeply grateful
- R — 影響？She taught me to argue with a text rather than swallow it
關鍵選擇：挑「教過你一整個學期以上」的老師，不要挑補習班短期老師——時間長才有畫面可講。挑一個影響你思考方式的老師，比挑「對我很好」的老師高一個等級。
完整範文（315 字）
¹ The teacher I want to describe is Ms Chen, who taught me Chinese literature at senior high school in Taipei, back when I was about 15 or 16. ² At the time I didn't particularly like her — honestly, most of the class found her a bit intimidating — but looking back, she probably shaped the way I think more than any other teacher I've had.
³ What made her different wasn't what she taught but how she taught it. ⁴ Most Mandarin-literature classes in Taiwan are essentially memorisation: classical poems, commentary, exam-ready interpretations. ⁵ Ms Chen refused to play that game. ⁶ On the first day she wrote a famous Tang-dynasty poem on the whiteboard and asked, "Does anyone actually think this is any good? And if so, why — in your own words?"
⁷ The class just sat there, mortified. ⁸ Nobody had ever been asked that before. ⁹ We'd been trained to repeat what the textbook said, and here was a teacher openly suggesting the textbook might be wrong.
¹⁰ Over those two years she slowly taught us to argue with a text rather than just swallow it — to notice which lines felt alive and which felt dead, and to defend our reading with evidence from the poem itself rather than from the commentary. ¹¹ My grades actually dropped briefly, because the kind of thinking she wanted was slower and more uncertain than the kind the exam rewarded.
¹² I think the real influence shows up now, years later. ¹³ Whenever I read an article or listen to someone confident, a small part of my brain automatically asks Ms Chen's question — is this actually any good, and if so, why, in my own words? ¹⁴ I didn't know it at 16, but she was teaching me how to read the world, not just poems.
句句中文解析
- 句 1-2 (複雜初印象)：didn't particularly like her, a bit intimidating, but looking back... — 承認負面印象後翻轉，比純粹讚美真實 10 倍。
- 句 3 (核心句)：What made her different wasn't what she taught but how she taught it — 用 what X wasn't Y, but Z 的招牌 Band 7 結構直接定調。
- 句 4-6 (具體場景 1)：memorisation, refused to play that game, wrote a famous Tang-dynasty poem on the whiteboard — 對比 + 具體動作。直接引用她的話（"Does anyone actually think this is any good?"）= 高分動作。
- 句 7-9 (學生反應)：mortified, had been trained to repeat, openly suggesting the textbook might be wrong — 把衝突感做出來。
- 句 10-11 (影響機制)：argue with a text rather than swallow it, grades actually dropped briefly — 用「成績短暫下滑」的小細節提高可信度。
- 句 12-14 (R 最大化)：the real influence shows up now, years later... she was teaching me how to read the world, not just poems — 從教室升級到人生觀。Band 8 收尾。
四項 Band 7+ 證據
- Fluency & Coherence：結構清晰（人物介紹 → 她的教法 → 具體課堂 → 學生反應 → 長期影響 → 現在的我）；linkers 自然穿插。
- Lexical Resource：intimidating, memorisation, mortified, swallow it, defend our reading — 抽象概念 + 具體動詞並用。"...how to read the world, not just poems" 是招牌結尾。
- Grammatical Range：過去完成（Nobody had ever been asked, We'd been trained）、關係子句（who taught me, which lines felt alive and which felt dead）、直接引述（引用問題是高分動作）。
- Pronunciation：直接引述 Ms Chen 的問題時可以換語調，讓敘事更生動。
替代 hook
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- I want to describe Ms Chen, my high-school Chinese-literature teacher, who quietly changed how I read everything...
- Looking back now, there's one teacher whose influence I didn't recognise at the time but feel clearly now...