638. He had to practice many times to learn






Thank you, Julia Cates, for your comment. One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Some months ago I was teaching private classes to a boy that had to pass his school subject of English. what I’m going to say is also ok for group classes.




We were studying an exercise from his text book about phrasal verbs, and the student had to match each phrasal verb with a synonym on another column, you know. We did the exercise once. The point is that repetition – plus practicing naturalistically are essential.




We repeated the same exercise a second time. My student thought it was enough, for he had understood the meanings of the phrasal verbs. However, we did the exercise a third time, a fourth time, and I don’t remember if any more. My student grasped the idea that one thing is to understand and another different thing is to learn, to interiorize those phrasal verbs. Some weeks afterward he was able to remember those phrasal verbs.” / Photo from: fondosgratis com mx. Theme: soccer (or football) player.

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