I have been out for a while. I have had a lot to do since I have had my teaching practice at a upper secondary school here where I live. Arriving at the school and realising the level of knowledge the students are at today is horrifying. Most of the students I had hag never read a text in English that were more than 4 pages long. Most of the students couldn't speak or write English in a satisfying way. The level they where at shouldn't have given them grades from secondary school but all of them had at lest an E in English which is beyond me.

This is an enormous problem since the students lack so much knowledge that when they come to upper secondary school they won't be able to manage at the level you as a teacher should teach at. You have to tech at a level for year 8-9 not for English 5. It's not possible to use texts that are meant for English 5 in and English 5 class since they cannot comprehend it. I tried for the students to read a text called "The great rat hut" which was from their coursebook and maybe 4 students in the class understood the text while the rest didn't. Many of the students also said that they had nevem read a text this long and it was 4 pages long, which is not long at all and they should be able to understand it and comprehend it on some level but in this case they barely understood what the text was about.

Then we moved on to listening and the exercise was quite long it was 10 minutes and they didn't have any text to read at the same time just listen and remember. But again they didn't understand what it was about and more surprisingly they didn't take any notes at all. This led to a problem, how would I get the students to understand the text and how on earth would I get them to try to understand it?