You Will Not learn language by Swoting

You Will Not Learn Language by Swoting... Language is a natural tool of communication. It is necessary to approach its teaching in the same way. Why are schools criticized for bringing only a passive knowledge of a second foreign language? How to learn a language naturally? What‘s the difference? Schools often forget the most important ones with their style focused on the use of textbooks and artificially created texts. Language is a natural system, so it should be transmitted in a way that reflects this property. By confronting the Czech educational system with the international ones in our country, at the 1st International School of Ostrava, it follows that the inclusion of natural original materials, texts, music, level reading, projects, etc. in teaching is absolutely inseparable. The need to overcome the barrier formed by the application of traditional textbooks and their chapters focused on the intensive development of monothematic vocabulary is becoming increasingly clear. We find that teaching based only on separate thematic blocks does not take into account how a person speaks naturally. After all, only a few hundred basic words are enough for basic communication between people. It is stated that up to 65% of written materials in everyday communication contain only 300 basic words. Why not use them? So what is our priority in the 21st century? To be able to speak actively or to learn as many words as possible about „restaurant“? Polyglots do not swot up for the language monothematically, they live by it. POSITIV 4/2020 ǀ 117