No 4, October - December 1993 Page 36 . . . The Piece of News by Belazreg Abdesslem Variety is the spice of vivid and effective teaching.
Pupils claim that most teachers are boring.
They just come, give a lesson, and leave. I have always tried to include variety in my lessons. I tried several ways to do this, but they all proved a failure except one. This one I call the piece of news. It is done on a rota basis, i.e., students do it by turns, beginning with the first student sitting at the first table to the last student sitting at the last table.