Thank you for inviting Engfish teachers from around the world to write to you about our teaching situations I enjoy reading your magazine every month- there are always so many new and exciting ideas in each issue! met I have to admit that I often fel a 6it discouraged after reading about many of these communicative ideas. I think they would be really hard to put to work my situation. Let me explain. I work in a secondary school which is very crowded classes are really large-- and I am the only qu EngGsh teacher for our whole school over 111 country people want to study English but it is dificult to find good teachers. The Ministry of Education can't pay school teachers very much, so may teachers leave the schools in order to teach privately. That's why we often have on one or two English teachers for the entire school. I teach severa sections of classes and have too many leamers to respond to. It's very frustrating, especially when you want to do some activities with them. communicative