Our school is fairly traditional. We have a team of four “School Captains” or “Senior Prefects”. Students in their penultimate year apply for the posts. They write their proposals, they get interviewed and, in the end, get appointed. Once appointed they lead the school for the following...
My comprehensive school taught GCSE Spanish rather than German or any other second language. This wasn´t the norm in the eighties in fact it was quite rare.After passing GCSE Spanish easily, I continued onto do A Level Spanish. This course was dull. Spanish literature made up a large par...
they say “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Well, in language learning, we could just as easily say that “everyone has the perfect conversation in mind until they speak to a real native.”