Hello everybody. In Afghanistan we do not have a lot of facilities to use in order to help the students improve their English. We most often use our local newspapers which are not in English. I myself cut out some articles, write down the new words and translate them into English. Then I read the article out loud, translate it into English and make a sentence for each new word.

Then the students read it aloud and make sentences with most of the words. Finally we all get together and discuss the theme. Of course, we ask someone to go the board and talk about the article so that the others can ask questions. It only takes one and a half hours to learn a lot of words and get encouraged to speak in English in front of people.

Added by Abdul Jawad Samimi, Afghanistan