420. He had a good monitor

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “The extra-class interviews in English, better if male teacher and male student, may achieve farther than tutorials in L1. There can be a teacher that picks up the students one by one, out of the classroom, to make an interview, as a reinforcement to speaking. That teacher, for example you, teases the student in English, you ask him questions, and each student, at his correspondent level of English – I’m referring to adolescents – will tell you some things about his own interests and circumstances.

A few days ago, in an interview with me, one student could manage only to say very, very few words. Another student, one of a higher-level group was telling me about the past Football World Cup, for about twenty minutes, with specific technical aspects I didn’t know about: I asked him to explain to me the play of his national team and he eagerly wished to tell me everything. Awesome.” / Photo from www mundounido com mx