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Discuss with your partners
Talking about teachers among friends.
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Solution
To answer this question, you may talk about the following points.
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The relation that a student shares with a teacher.
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The manner in which the students talk about teachers.
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Expectations of a student from a teacher and vice versa.
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The issues that students discuss the teachers.
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The qualities that make a teacher popular and likable among students?
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Is all that students talk about teachers, morally correct, such as the use of personal remarks?
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