【师资力量】Teacher Dan

一、请向大家介绍你自己
     My name is Daniel, but I prefer it when others call me Dan. I am a full time teacher at NDI.
二、你的个性特征或兴趣爱好？
     Aside from work I would consider myself to be “otaku” which is Japanese for “house boy” or “somebody who often stays at home”, in English we often say “loser” or “geek”.
三、你周末或闲暇时，喜欢参加哪些活动？
     I live with my younger brother and my three beautiful kittens. When I am not teaching, you can often find me in the pub having a beer, watching the football on TV, chatting to my friends and talking about the days as they pass on by.
四、你和新动态结识多久了？
     I have been working for the company for almost four years now.
五、在新动态的英语教学过程中，你有没有碰到过一些有意思的人或事，如果有，请分享给大家听听吧。
     Working at NDI has been a huge honour and pleasure for me .Over the past years I have accumulated a whole bunch of interesting students and moments.
     I can recall in one class, the topic was ‘dancing’, where I was listing several different types of dance upon the white board: hip-hop,Latin, salsa, break-dancing. As soon as I wrote “break-dancing” a student stood up in my class and started to dance!     
     It was an absolutely amazing experience and I greatly respected his courage to just get up and show the class what he could do. He then offered to teach me some really basic break-dancing moves, but I was a little scared that I would get my suit dirty.Besides,I would probably break my back! Maybe next time!
六、你对新动态的学员们有什么建议呢？
     Well, take care guys, I truly hope I have the pleasure one day, to meet you all. If you ever see me about, please feel free to chat with me, it will make me more than happy.
七、对于在新动态的工作和生活，你有什么收获和感想？
     I have learnt many a thing whilst living in China and I have also brought with me a various amount of skills that I can apply to my teaching job. For example, my main strength that I developed from studying Drama at university is my ability to improvise, or to think and say something immediately without having to prepare, plan or think. This has proven to be particularly useful as an English teacher as students often have questions and information that I have not prepared for.
In addition to all of this, I often try my best to do exercises during class that help to improve a student’s ability to improvise, whether it be for English or their daily life; its great fun and an extremely useful skill to have.