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[Dawn]

Is it truly possible that kids from go from zero English to at least a low intermediate speaking level in 150 classroom hours?

For the past two years, I've been teaching at a school that uses Let's Go (along with WB, chant book, and all other supplementary materials) as its primary text. On average, we spend three 40-minute class periods a week on Let's Go related stuff. Carve out time for vacation and other annual school events, and you're left with about 80 total teaching hours, at the end of which most classes have thoroughly mastered all the stuff they're supposed to know.

Enter the class schedule for next year.

According to the schedule my boss handed me yesterday, come January I'm supposed to begin teaching the same things I've been teaching in 120 minutes a week in just under 40 minutes a week. Yep, 25 total teaching hours for each level of Let's Go -- 1500 minutes for 150 pages of student text and worktext ... 10 minutes a page.

At that rate, a kid should be able to progress from Let's Go 1 (zero English) to Let's Go 6 (fairly decent English) in a sum total of 150 hours. Oh, and we're not talking 150 hours of one-on-one instruction. We're talking 150 hours in a classroom full of 16+ other bouncy, trouncy little kids.

Am I alone in thinking somebody's being a little too optimistic in their expectations here?

[the_beaver]

You'e right. Utter poppycock.