Teaching English to Lower Level Students

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Teaching English to lower level people can be very difficult. It takes a while where you can sort of speak in quite a serious way about serious things, but you've learnt how to adapt your english. And so and that's great, like tha, the learners absolutely love it. They love it when you are able to talk to them clearly without its being patronizing. But yet, it's a different thing talking simply and clearly. I don't i keep saying simple, but i mean, just er choosing our words. And i think you can communicate really high level things using simple language.

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