ABSTRACT
Student N teaching in a Secondary Modern school, was being rather more successful in his language lessons. By confining himself to isolated sentences, however, the student missed an opportunity. Student O had not handled any English language work other than grammar during his final practice up to the week in which he heard the recordings. Student P, in his first supervised lesson during this period of practice, attempted something experimental. Student O had been concentrating his attention, in his language lessons, on grammar, using a mechanical approach and failing to relate to significant contexts the forms of language he was trying to teach and Student M was generalising without reference to specific examples. The fact that the lesson was only partially successful illustrates the dangers that a student courts when he takes over in its entirety a lesson which he has seen someone else teach successfully.
