Example

4. Copy your lists onto Post-its and stick them near the other Post-it lists you have been making.

Discussing with the Whole Class

Share your lists from Speaking and Listening with a Partner with the rest of the class. As other classmates are sharing their lists, write down any of their ideas that you would like to add to your list. Write the lists on the board. When everyone has shared their lists, if time permits, tell the class what ideas, if any, you added to your list.

Writing your Journal

Write about things you have done in your English classes that you think were either helpful or not helpful.

Example

When I was in high school, I remember my teacher used to make us learn the grammar rules that we were studying. We had to write the rules down in our tests. For example, we learned that the present perfect tense expresses an action that began in the past and is continuing in the present. The funny thing is, we focused on the rules but could never use them when we were speaking English.

H. Douglas Brown, Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English (White Plains, NY: Pearson Education, 2002.) Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.