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What did school mean for you when you
were a child? Classmates, fun, time
without parents? And what about
learning? Did you care about it? Somehow,
probably. Because your parents did. You
might have rather felt tired or
uninterested, usually. And you were not
the only one. What makes children feel
like this and what can we do to change it?
There is an easy answer on this
question, which sounds: involvement. To
involve somebody means to provide them
with possibility to express their ideas and
opinions. Imagine 30 children in one
classroom with one teacher having a 45
min lesson. In other words, this means
that the teacher has exactly 45 minutes to
involve 30 students to their teaching and give them space to understand and react. Now, it is not difficult to
calculate that one student has exactly 1 minute and 30 seconds to speak. Well, that´s not much, but at least
something. Nevertheless – what does the reality look like?
The teacher comes on time (at best), checks the attendance (for about 5 minutes), comments on
something (usually a problem like untidy desks or cheeky boys) and then gives a very important command:
„Open your books. Unit 5, page 46.“ There are still about 35 minutes left. How will the class spend these?
Having „funny“ time with the books. Yeah, that´s it. Text books use to be funny - especially the ones for
children. Do you remember the crazy pictures and funny comics? What are they good for? Do they really do
their job? The only thing they do is interest the kids – but in fact, they do not teach them anything. A child will
never learn a thing with not doing it (this stands for adults, too). So, after having given the command about
opening the books, the teacher has dealings with a class matching some words they do not properly
understand, filling in sentences they would never be able to form themselves and reading comics focused on
grammar they haven´t come across even in Czech yet. It´s nearly impossible to see who is trying to cooperate
and who bunks off, as the facial expressions of both these types of children are the same. But how to avoid this?
The answer is again really easy. Involve all the children. Every teacher would probably ask: „How to do it
when there are so many of them?“ Our aswer would be: let them make pairs and start from the easiest thing
you wanna teach them. Write it on the board and tell them to make as many sentences with this as they need.
As many sentences as they need is really important information, as it means the children can´t stop unless they
feel very comfortable about the practised stuff. And what does it mean to feel very comfortable? To understand
and be sure. In other words it means believe yourself. And what do you think, would you like school if it taught
you to believe yourself? We believe you would.
VOCABULARY
Go through the adjectives from the text and try to answer the questions:
tired
uninterested
difficult
untidy
cheeky
important
funny
easy
comfortable
unavený
nezúčastněný
složitý
neuklizený/nepořádný
drzý
důležitý
zábavný
jednoduchý
příjemný/pohodlný
What can make you tired?
Do you sometimes feel uninterested? When?
What is difficult for you to do?
Do you know anybody untidy?
Are you sometimes cheeky?
Who is the most important person for you? Why?
What´s the funniest joke you have ever heard?
Is English easy? Why? Why not?
When do you feel comfortable?
CROSSWORD
1.(verb)
What do children like to do?
2
2.(adjective)
Synonym for „easy“
3
3.(verb)
Every child has to learn to read, count and ______
4.(noun)
Everybody has a family and some _______
5.(noun)
We use a ______ for writing.
6.(noun)
Opposite for „adults“
7.(verb)
All teachers ______
8.(adjective)
Opposite for „right“
9.(noun)
A place where we learn new things
10.(noun)
Something we have to do at home and bring it to school
11.(noun)
Something we eat at noon
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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12.(adjective)Opposite for „easy“
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