Real Life Opportunities for Speaking
English
By Exchanging real information- communicating- is every English teacher’s goal for his or her students. Planned activities during the communicative stage of the lesson are, of course, essential. However, many real life opportunities for speaking English can be found in the classroom every day.
One of these opportunities is when
students need to ask permission to be excused from class. For example, a student may need to see a
doctor or to meet his parents. I have
the student make his request in English and also explain his reason in English.
When a student is late to class,
there is another opportunity to have the student explain in English his reason
for being late.
Even asking permission to go to the
bathroom can be an opportunity to use English!
These tasks are difficult for some
students. They often need to look up
words in the dictionary. If a low-level
student can’t explain at first, I help him.
In this way the students increase their vocabulary.
Real communication means successful
language learning.
N. Yanjmaa is an English teacher at
Secondary School No. 1 in Bulgan Aimag and an EXCEL graduate.