Activities
A Check your understanding of Desuggestopedia.
1 What are some of the ways that direct positive suggestions were present in the
lesson? Indirect positive suggestions?
2 How are the arts integrated into the lesson we observed?
B Apply what you have understood about Desuggestopedia.
1 Most teachers do not have control of the classrooms in which they teach. This does
not mean that they cannot provide an environment designed to reduce the barriers
their students bring with them, however. Can you think of ways that you might do
this?
2 Make a list of 10 grammatical points about the target language that you would
want to display on posters to encourage beginning students’ peripheral learning.
