"It's boring"

I just had a thought about a comment I heard about teachers saying that our unit content can be boring after a couple of weeks - "a month is a long time to stay on one topic..."

Aidé thinks that teachers can hype up the content and excite the students, and I believe that. But I just realized that this is where we can show/reinforce that the content is just the vehicle to learn and practice the language. The content is not the point of the teaching in ELD lessons. It's a bonus.

If I were teaching my lessons day in and out, what I would be hyping is expression. I would want my students to develop their ownership of being able to think about what they think and play around with all the ways they can say it.

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