I got to pull up the files for the curriculum I wrote for our language school in Sydney to try and reuse old material in my new class. The process has left me a little nostalgic, thinking of old students and past lessons, but it's been good too. I have been greatly enjoying having adult students again and being free to concentrate on helping them learn the language in a way that makes sense and is accessible for them, rather than just try to survive and "pass" their English content courses. Many of the questions are still the same (Why are they called adjectives when they are really pronouns?) but the stress level is much lower and the enjoyment factor much higher.
A students who enters our educational system in the upper elementary, middle or high school years faces a very daunting, nearly impossible task: learn English while simultaneously keeping up and gaining proficiency in the core academic subjects, which are all being taught in English. The vast majority of tea