Music and breath exercises lead to full relaxation and freedom from stress. So, too, a wide range of word games and language roles, illustrations and drawings, make learning stress-free. Unfortunately, introduction of any of the variants of Lozanov's method is nearly impossible in traditional Polish schools. And inadequate training is available to teachers, many of whom stick to their old handbooks and teaching habits. As for me, I am doing my best to put the ideas of the suggestopedic method into practice.
Pantomime abilities are especially important in the first stages of learning.
There are few opportunities to introduce breath and listening exercises, as they require comfortable armchairs, adequate light, and perhaps a longer period of time given over to English class. I try to use a tape-recorder as often as possible, even if it means listening to songs or singing them most of the time. Easy songs are especially useful in teaching beginning students, who still cannot produce more complicated utterances, and repeating texts from a book becomes boring. Let the students enjoy singing-the right half of the brain will do its job and they will remember the rules anyway. I noticed quite long ago that drawings, especially humorous ones, decidedly improve the memorization processes.