246. Training? Essential


The teacher trainer-coach told me,
"Many teachers ask me up to what extent drill is good to learn English, or should we teachers put drill aside and using all the time alloted for the class-period to, say, creative writing, talking, etc?
Drill is good practice.
The students learn a grammar pattern, ok, and then it's convenient for them to practice that pattern in the form of the common regular drill-exercise, in which your kids have got to repeat a molded kind of sentence, or using the appropriate verbal tense."
The Chosen 7 guys for the Mercury Project, at the beginning of the 60's. Oh, what were their names? Schirra, Sheperd, Gordon, Glenn, Carpenter..., Sorry. There is a novel about this thing. Tom Wolfe wrote it, The Right Stuff. Picture from www spacearium com.

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