intelligent students will suggest by their questions what is obscure to them, and what ought therefore to be taught. I will suppose twenty or thirty lessons to have been taught, and will briefly examine what the class lesson is like at that stage. Assume that the lesson is to last an hour and a-half. The first ten minutes should be devoted to conversation in which the pupils should freely join. They will have acquired a considerable number of subjective phrases which they will be able to use quite freely as far as they go, and will also make an attempt to use some of the language learned in the Series. After the usual preliminary salutations, the teacher by a judicious remark, may turn the conversation to anything that presents itself. The weather is an unfailing source of talk in English, and may also be utilised in Irish. Of course this subject may be taught as a Series or number of Series, but it may be also referred to subjectively and in practically the same language. Suppose we take the Series.
ḂI AN OIḊĊE ARÉIR FLIUĊ.
- D’EIRIĠ an oiḋċe fuar.
- ṪÁINIG sgamall ar an ngeallaiġ.
- ṪOISIĠ sé ag cur fearṫaine.
- ṪUIRLING an ḟearṫain go trom.
- ḂÍ SRUṪANNA ar an sráid.
- D’EIRIĠ tuile san aḃainn, agus
- RINNEAḊ doċar mór doṁ ḃarr.
The subjective references to this subject would take some such turn as this:—
“Dia ḋiut, a Ṡeaġain. Naċ breáġ an oiḋċe í seo? breáġ, buiḋeaċas le Dia. ḂÍ sé an-ḟliuċ
