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She is always more than ready to travel - be it a short trip to some town or a long flight by an airplane to another continent.

Here both "short trip" and "a long flight" qualify as "travel"

So, do "a request to repeat the words" and "an assignment to construct a whole sentence" also qualify as "teacher's instructions" in the following example?:

She is very attentive and is more than ready to follow upon her teacher's instructions – be it merely a request to repeat words aloud after the teacher or an assignment to construct a whole sentence by herself.

If not, then what better term (word or a phrase) would encompass both? "Teacher's commands"?

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  • "whole flight" is odd. Do you mean "long flight"?
    – TimR
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 16:34
  • And you might change task to assignment. To my ear, assignment is like a request in that it can refer to the act of asking or telling someone what you would like or would require them to do, whereas the noun task does not refer to the act of asking or telling; it refers rather to that which you ask someone to do or tell them to do.
    – TimR
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 16:48
  • @Tᴚoɯɐuo - Thank you. just changed that, too. A small side question: Why is "be it an assignment to construct a whole sentence" is okay, but "be it a whole flight" is odd?
    – brilliant
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 16:53
  • Because a sentence is made of parts, phrases and clauses, whereas a flight is a unity, unless it is a flight of sample beers or a flight of stairs. What idea do you mean to convey with the word whole there with "flight"?
    – TimR
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 17:03
  • @Tᴚoɯɐuo - "What idea do you mean to convey with the word whole there with "flight"?" - The idea was to contrast a long flight and a short trip. Like "a flight" is an absolutely another "class" of a travel, a whole other story" (not sure if it's correct to say so in English)
    – brilliant
    Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 17:06

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A "request", strictly speaking, is not really an "instruction", so if you're looking for a generic phrase that would satisfy someone who might quibble there:

She is very attentive and always ready to heed her teacher's words...

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