3678. What to Do to Have Nice Discussions in Class

 I’m an English language teacher. And I consider that my dear students would speak in that language is the main goal, don’t you think so? 

They often say sentences in class, if they are at a low level of mastering English. My higher-level ones intervene for longer and we hold nice discussions in class. Definitely I have to have them all of my students would contribute to the class for longer than mere sentences. I must have them speak for rather long. 

Some years they have prepared oral presentations to speak for some minutes … or the whole lesson sometimes. 

Definitely also it’s not the same to say just sentences than to have some conversations or some discussions. 

Lately more than before this current school year I can observe that the textbooks we’re utilizing help out a lot. 

By the way, I teach adults and when I ask them, well, I try and ask tactfully, because obviously they have their privacy. 

Moreover if we wish we would have discussions in class, they need to have grammar and vocab. It is crucial to have grammar and vocab if they want to participate in discussions. 

We can use the grammar patterns we are lately learning or reviewing in class, but they ought to have quite a lot of grammar and lexis: otherwise no discussions, or these ones may be rather poor. 

Well, something we can do is to provide vocabulary and perhaps some grammar before the discussion. Yep, that’s something we can do. 

Furthermore I’d say that if they read massively and intensely, well they will gain those necessary grammar and vocab. Also if they at home work on the coursebook. 

As well if before the discussion they study some given lexis and grammar, they could get interested in the topic itself, that’s it! 

Anyway, coming to summing up, we have to have discussions in class, among us all, but they, the students, have to daily work on the textbook and read other books or graded readers, if they should have the necessary elements to have those discussions. Have a nice day, fellow readers!

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