Reviewing the themes and ideas in Me Talk Pretty One Day

1. How is the teacher presented in the story? Use quotes to support your ideas. (Point, Evidence, Explanation)

      e.g.

      P: I think that the teacher in the story is presented...

      E: In the text, it/she says, '...'

      E: The word/phrase '...' suggests that...

   2. Do you think these teaching methods are useful for foreign language learning?

   3. Have you ever felt like this in a language classroom?   Describe the anecdote trying to use humour and reported speech.

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Simple forms
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
this evening	that evening
today/this day	that day
these days	those days
now	then
a week ago	a week before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
next week	the following week
tomorrow	the next/following day
here	there

Aim to incorporate some of the following words and phrases into your responses:

Key vocabulary:

•Shame

•Belittle/mock

•A comeback

•Intimidate

•Rusty

•Fluent

•To pick up

•To be completely thrown

•Sink or swim

Useful phrases:

Throughout the story, the teacher is presented as …

The teacher seems/is portrayed as  ..

As far as i´m concerned … /in my opinion

In my experience, these type of teaching methods ….

Detrimental/damaging

To affect/ruin self-esteem/ self-confidence