CHALLENGE 15

A story about the question "What do you do if you can't sleep at night?"

suddenly came to mind.

In my elementary school, the teacher would often give a demonstration lesson when there were video cameras or many teachers in the back row listening to the lesson.

Before such lessons, the teacher would always rehearse the lesson, giving it to us a few times and arranging in advance who would answer the questions.

One lesson we learned was how to tell time in math class.

In the rehearsal lesson, the teacher asked the question "What do you do if you can't sleep at night?

", but five or six students answered with something like doing homework, reading a book, or watching TV, which was obviously not the answer the teacher wanted.

I raised my hand and said "Chinese New Year Gala".

Obviously this was the "correct answer" and the teacher was happy to let me sit down and switch to the next PowerPoint, which was a picture of the countdown to the Spring Festival Gala.

During the demonstration lesson, the teacher asked the same question, and I was particularly motivated to raise my hand and answer "Spring Festival Gala" again.

This time the teacher looked a little embarrassed, and it seemed that the "right answer" had appeared too early, so she asked a few more students before switching to the next PowerPoint.