3614. Working on Texts in the Classroom: My Experience

 Here I am again with you. 

Man is a person who naturally tends to work. We have been created to work. And also naturally we tend to work better and better, with perfection. Not with some insane perfectionism. But with perfection. 

So we teachers naturally would wish our students would learn. Right? 

And now in the northern earth hemisphere we are close to finish another school year. And we may be tired. Our students may be tired. So we foreign or second language teachers have to pull our students upward, until the school year is over. Even we could think of the work our students might carry out through the summer. 

I was thinking that one way to help our students to reach the end of this sort of race is assigning to work on texts of their interest. It’s something I do myself. And those texts can serve the purpose of prompting a lot of spoken language in the classroom. 

We for example English language teachers might be expert at arousing to provoke conversations and discussions in the classroom about the topics of those texts. 

A friend of mine used to say that we English language teachers tend to ask many questions about a given topic. What, where, why…? Well he was right, that may be a humoristic view of us English teachers though. 

So my dear colleagues, do not give up now if you are about to finish the school year and try and provide interesting texts taken from the Internet or from other English coursebooks: your students will be very grateful. Have a nice day.