Structure
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Most
suggestopedic language courses for adults are spread over
four or five weeks, and are held five days a week, three
and a half hours a day (in actual fact, two one-and-a-half-hour
sessions, with a 30-minute break between them).
Each
new lesson is first presented during the second one-and-a-half-hour
session of the day, and every lesson lasts a total of
four one-and-a-half-hour sessions. In this way, the first
session every day is always a carryover from the previous
day, and all new material is introduced when the students
are already "warmed up."
Eight
or ten specially written dialogues constitute the framework
of the course. These tell the story of twelve or fourteen
people who are gathered together to participate in a humanistic
venture of one sort or other. Themes that have been used
include a congress on "Man and Nature," a convention on
"Communication between People," and a "Contributions to
World Civilisation" exhibition.
All
twelve or fourteen characters have been made attractive
in every way. They are intelligent, sensitive, civic-minded,
socially successful, and professionally prominent. They
are the kind of people most of us would like to be, as
adults. To foreign students, they are credible American
or British models of what they would like to become.
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