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Warming up questions:
How do you think people learn a language?
Why do you think people learn a language?
Do people learn a second language best inside or outside a classroom?
Do you think of the classroom as a real situation of its own or as something artificial?
What do you do if you realize someone has not understood what you have said?
FLUENT IN THREE MONTHS Benny’s TEDx talk: Speak from Day One
http://www.fluentin3months.com/tedx/
What do you think of these statements? Do you agree with them? Why/ why not?
The basis for teaching is the spoken, not the written language.
Teachers and students should use the second language rather than the first language in
the class.
The aim of language teaching is to make students like native speakers.