those who can´t teach . . .

My class was so great last night! I had another conversation with my boss where I told him that my students were at at least two different levels, and that four of the five shouldn´t have passed their previous class (which he taught). He was like ¨Yeah, I know. They are really slow.¨ I refrained from telling him that that was more a commentary on their teacher than on them.
I decided I shouldn´t try to teach them material from this class when they don´t know anything from their first class. I don´t know how that will go over, or how far we´ll be able to get, but that´s really all I can do. Last night´s class was really fun though. The guy who is conversational wasn´t there, and that helped a lot. The others are intimated to speak in front of him and he keeps translating what I say to them. I think I´m going to give him more advanced work pages and stick him in a corner. But I did a ¨review¨ with them of ten questions, what is your name, where do you live, that they were supposed to ask each other and write down the answers in the correct form. Her name is, she lives . . . It took us the entire hour and a half to do this supposed review. None of them knew the difference between the pronouns I ,you, he she it and possessive pronouns my, your, his, her. I´m not sure what they learned in their class but it wasn´t that. And they told my boss that they couldn´t understand when I spoke to them in english, so he asked me to speak to them in spanish. It´s such a bad school. Anyway. So I spoke to them in spanish a little bit, but also told them that they should speak in english, anything, even if it´s incorrect. They´re used to being spoken to in spanish while they learn english, and it is uncomfortable not understanding. But I think we had a good class.