Still Got It

Chapter Four

I t had been a tiring but rewarding ten days. As the Greek schools didn’t break up for another week, Grace had taught adults– businessmen and women from the town– in the mornings and kids in the afternoons. The businesspeople were eager to learn, and Grace had used several of the ideas in her arsenal of tricks to push them.

She’d been determined that they weren’t going to be sitting there staring at a screen all morning. One of her most successful lessons was when she’d handed out photocopies with pictures and information on some of the country’s top tourist attractions, such as the Acropolis and the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, plus the ruins at Delphi, and asked them to get into pairs.

One of the students got to be the tourist and the other a tour guide. Grace asked the tour guide to explain in English why the tourist should go to these places, how they could get there, and why they were culturally significant. The tourist had to ask lots of relevant questions. Then they had to swap over and do it the other way round.