A few weeks ago I was in Brussels visiting an old friend, Jonathan, who is retired but does voluntary work including teaching English to teenage students who have dropped out of school for various reasons. These students attend a school run by ABER . Their website states that their aim is to help 15-21 year-olds get back into school by offering a personal education programme. This includes English lessons. Most of the class were of Moroccan descent, all had fluent French. The class had various levels of English ranging from A! (very little) to A2/B1 - a certain degree of fluency. My friend asked me if I would like to come along and join in with an English lesson, which I was very happy to do. Now Jonathan is not a trained teacher and he was pleased to let me take over the class of about 12 students. We had been given a somewhat dated article to use whose main aim was to get students using the future tense. To play along, I got the students to do some choral reading, pronunciation ...
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