There has to be something else or I’ll invent it

        I work in a private institute where I teach spoken English for students of all age starting from 10 to 40 years. I teach them not based on any text books but what I feel to be beneficial for them to speak. It was the second last day of my class for my evening students, after a marathon of two months’ English classes. I was in a sense of fulfillment that I had been able to cover all the tenses in English grammar for them (I focused mostly on teaching the twelve tenses in English since I believed without tenses how can you ‘speak’ anything in English!). 

         

          After the class finished, one of them asked me in Malayalam “sir, Oralod enthenkilum veno enn engane chodikkum?”   Means: ‘sir, what do I say in English if I want to ask someone ‘do you want something?’ “.  I replayed the answer. But I felt ridiculous and realized I am a complete failure as an English teacher. What the hell was I teaching so far?! How come I didn’t teach them the essential stuff? Why didn’t I know what is important and what not to teach? A thousand questions tortured my mind and I felt I’m good for nothing as an English teacher.

                

         I really wanna change this, I really want to design a new method and style to teach English and if any Keralite attend my classes must come out with good speaking skills in English. Hope TESOL will help find that secret. I believe there has to be some techniques to be followed which will help anyone to speak English effortlessly.  There has to be something or I’ll invent it.