Structure - 2 of 2

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.