85. How to learn to learn


Joe told me,
"It is indispensable that your students learn how to turn the stuff of the exercises of their workbook into something useful for authentic communication, both inside and outside the classroom.
The teacher so you, can... No, your students ought to engage their brains.
Ask them what are they going to do to turn the grammar of a specific exercise into something practical for today's class. They have got to suggest something practical, not just presenting the first conditional type of sentences.
Do not tell them any hint. Let them set their minds on reflection. Listen, value and nod at any statement."
Great Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on Casablanca (1942).

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