In addition to this, I want to catch them before they ask the inevitable question which is “I have failed for so many years in my studies of English, just what good is another two hour weekly session going to do for one year, two years, or even more? I’m hopeless in English. I’m a failure. I always was a failure. I therefore hate English because I am a failure and you’re not going to be able to teach me all of the English that they weren’t able to teach in high school or before that. I had very good teachers there and they weren’t able to get through to me and you’re not going to be able to get through to me either.” They do have a point by the way when they say that. If their attitude is that there is no hope of me being able to get through to them then they will probably be right and there will not be any way for me to get through to them. I won’t be able to teach them because you can’t teach someone who is fighting you and who doesn’t want to be taught.

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