Hi Ben,
Hope your story, King of Pain (Vol. 2 Matava) goes well today. I like the way you hung in there on the quasi boring PQA yesterday. It wasn’t very entertaining, but you kept the conversation going just fine and averaged over 70 repetitions on that first structure, avoir mal, so that wasn’t too bad. Plus, if a kid seemed out of it, you walked right over and smiled and forced the kid to be a little more human than he or she wanted to be. Good job!
However, just a little reminder here – don’t even bother to start your class today unless you are willing to put up or shut up on the following points:
1. Don’t allow English comments from kids. Don’t do it. Just don’t. Stay in L2.
2. And keep your own sorry ass in the target language. Don’t let those little side bars of English get into your instruction! You don’t need to digress into stuff in English – any stuff! I know that the real reason you do that is to show off how smart you are and the other reason you speak English so much in class is that you are lazy and undisciplined. Just don’t speak English in your classroom when doing that story today. Get it? Good heavens, stop with the English!
3. What don’t you get about going out of bounds? Why would you flit around the French language by introducing a bunch of words that the kids don’t know on top of the already hard work they are doing? Could it be that you want to show off some more, to show the kids how many words you know in French? DON’T GO OUT OF BOUNDS.
4. Hook your pony up to the Slow Wagon. Why do you keep unhitching it? Come on, dude!
Sincerely,
Ben
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