Smoking, Secondhand and Health!

Alya Albazie


References:Lay,J.S.(2011, Jan.18) HealthNewsDigest
Retrieved on Feb.8, 2011 from http://

Summary:
In this article, the author explains very important things about how English teacher can make oral classes very affective and interesting for students. She describes different ways to avoid students frustrated or being depressed because they cannot understand what is going on through teacher’s explanation for the lesson. She advises English teachers to change their strategy to make their classes very interesting for their students like talking or discussing something they love to talk about, make the class as group work in each group has various students’ interests. In addition, she mentions some difficulties which may face English teachers in using various dialogues between their students, how to keep them away from exhausted from a long time in discussing a subject in English whom they do not have too much words about it. Also, how to make reading in text books help students effectively and let them interact with each other all the time in English without need to open Chinese dictionary to look at the meaning of the word. Furthermore, she guides English teachers how to be successful in oral English classes. They must let their students talk about interesting things to attract their attention to learning the language.
Reaction:
Really it is very interesting article. I would like all English teachers to follow her advices to be good English teachers. In addition, how English teachers add to their classes more fun to be easy for students to gain the language. I like her illustration for many strategies about how to avoid difficulties in oral English classes and they will be more effectively for both students and teachers. She guided teachers to the correct way they can run classes and keep their students away from boring. In my opinion if all English teachers follow all these instructions, they will create new generation of students love learning English. Moreover, teachers will not find any constraints in teaching English or any skill.