Pretty and charming, dressed in the 90s, she's good at everything from making money to causing

Anything associated with "free" will have its influence multiplied exponentially, regardless of what it is.

"Why do people go to great lengths to skip paid classes, while blazing in free classes? What kind of mentality is that?"

Lin Ting looked at the scene of four people crammed into one desk and felt helpless.

With fifteen minutes to go before class, Lin Ting drank water and looked down at the lecture notes.

She was actually a little nervous, after all, it was her first time giving a lecture, and she was really afraid of misleading the students.

More students came in one after another, and when they saw that there were no seats, some complained a few words, while others simply found a place where they could see the blackboard and stood there.

Zhang Liang, who was checking his hearing test certificate at the door, encountered an unexpected situation.

"Hello comrade, I'm looking for Lin Ting."

Looking at the woman in front of him with gentle features who resembled his boss, Zhang Liang instantly realized who she might be.

He immediately said, "Okay, please wait a moment, I'll go and call Lin right away."

Lin's mother smiled and nodded: "Thank you."

Zhang Liang hurried over to Lin Ting and said, "Boss, it seems your mother has arrived!"

Lin Ting: "...?"

She didn't tell her mom that she was having a trial class today!

Lin Ting didn't dare to hesitate and jogged after Zhang Liang.

Sure enough, the person standing at the warehouse door was Lin Ma, accompanied by about a dozen students, including Sun Qingqing.

"Mom," Lin Ting walked over with a smile, then waved to the others, "Hello, brothers and sisters, I'm Lin Ting."

"Hello, sister. Hello, sister."

Lin's mother grabbed Lin Ting's wrist, as if afraid she would run away.

She smiled and said to the people behind her, "You guys go find your seats first, don't be late for class."

"Okay, goodbye Professor Lin."

These people all had audition certificates, and after handing them in, they each went to find their own seats to stand in.

Lin's mother pulled Lin Ting along, her smile complicated: "Ting'er, this place of yours... is indeed quite spacious."

Lin Ting blinked: "Right? I didn't lie to you, did I?"

Lin's mother looked at her with a half-smile: "Renting a place like this for a thousand yuan is enough?"

“That’s enough.” Lin Ting nodded seriously. “Actually, this place doesn’t even need to be rented.”

Lin's mother: "...?"

Lin Ting pulled her mother aside and whispered, "I only found out when I went to handle the paperwork that they're really encouraging private schools now, and since there aren't any established TOEFL training centers around here, the leaders are giving them special consideration..."

Seeing the distrust in Lin's mother's eyes, Lin Ting added, "It's mainly because this warehouse was originally abandoned. When the leader heard that I couldn't find a place to set up a school, he lent me this empty space, and also lent me a bunch of tables and chairs that various units had discarded."

Hearing her words, Lin's mother remembered something else: "No wonder I heard from my colleagues in logistics a few days ago that the broken tables and chairs piled up in the warehouse finally have a place to be thrown away."

Lin Ting: "..."

That's really harsh to say.

Lin Ting chuckled dryly and said, "Anyway, it's free, so a bigger place is fine."

Lin's mother nodded and asked her, "Are you ready? I see you have about three hundred people here. Can you teach so many people?"

It is quite difficult to deliver a large lecture well.

“I guess 90% of the trial classes are just for fun,” Lin heard. “My goal is to keep 50 people.”

Lin's mother hadn't expected Lin Ting to see things so clearly. She nodded and said, "Then go and prepare quickly, I'll listen too."

Lin Ting: "..."

She's starting to get nervous now.

The warehouse was large, so Lin's mother found a spot on the outer edge of the front row where she could stand without disturbing the students' listening and while still being able to see Lin Ting.

Zhang Liang brought over a chair, but Lin's mother shook her head and said softly, "You all sit down, I'm not tired."

Zhang Liang hesitated for a moment, then carried the stool away.

The owner said that her family knew nothing about her shop or garment factory.

Therefore, his secretary naturally couldn't show too much, lest the Empress Dowager discover something amiss.

At nine o'clock sharp, Lin Ting, facing the expectant gazes of a group of students, walked to the blackboard with his lecture notes.

The once noisy warehouse gradually quieted down.

"Just so you know, we don't give out eggs here," Lin Ting said with a smile.

"Pfft-"

The students couldn't help but laugh.

Lin Ting looked at the dark mass of people in front of her, her palms sweating slightly.

She couldn't see her mother, but she felt like she was being stared at.

Lin Ting pulled out a piece of chalk, broke off a small section that was difficult to write at the beginning, and then said, "My name is Lin Ting, and we'll be learning vocabulary in this lesson."

"Can I ask how everyone usually memorizes vocabulary?"

There were all sorts of opinions from the audience: some said "memorize it by rote," others said "copy it a hundred times," and one even said "don't memorize it."

"Are you here to lower the TOEFL pass rate if you don't memorize vocabulary?"

Lin Ting casually made a joke, which drew snickers from the students.

She smiled slightly, turned around, and wrote a word on the blackboard: like.

"Everyone recognizes this word, right?" Lin Ting asked.

"like!"

Lin Ting nodded and added, "Besides 'like,' there are also two other commonly used usages: 'like,' 'similar,' and 'possibly.'"

As she spoke, she wrote another word next to "like": "dislike".

"That word..."

"dislike!"

Before Lin could finish asking the question, the students rushed to answer.

Although most people here are just there for the fun of it, they all basically need to take the TOEFL and have studied it on their own to some extent, so they certainly recognize these basic words.

Lin Ting nodded: "Very good, you've all learned to answer quickly. But what I want to ask is—why does 'dislike' mean 'don't like'?"

"...?"

The students were bewildered.

When memorizing vocabulary, who cares why a word has a certain meaning?

Just like why does "I" represent "I"? Is it meaningful to study this?

"Let's leave that question for now and look at a few more sets of words."

Lin Ting quickly wrote down several more sets of words:

Agree/Disagree

order, disorder

honest, dishonest

After writing it down, she pointed to a few simple words and explained their meanings one by one: "agree, disagree; order, disorder or chaos; honest, dishonest."

"So, can someone tell me why 'dislike' means 'to dislike'?"

The students unconsciously began to think along the lines of her question.

Sun Qingqing whispered, "Because... there's an extra 'dis'?"

Lin Ting then asked, "So what does 'dis' mean?"

"Do not?"

This time, even more people answered, but their voices were filled with doubt.

Because "dis" never appears in the vocabulary list, no one has memorized its meaning.

Lin Ting nodded in affirmation: "That's right, the prefix 'dis' indicates negation. Let's look at a few more examples..."

In an era where memorizing words relies entirely on rote memorization and reading words by phonetic spelling, Lin Ting explained prefixes and suffixes to them.

This was not only novel for the students, but even Lin's mother, who was listening nearby, found it very interesting.

She couldn't help but recall how she was when she was learning English.

"It does seem easier to remember."

Lin's mother murmured softly, seemingly lost in thought.