Today we discuss in class about mistakes and errors.

Firstly, we learnt the difference between them:

An error is related to knowledge, to the lack of knowledge. For instance: “I go to the cinema yesterday”. Instead of “I went to the cinema yesterday”. In this case the student didn’t know the correct form of a verb.

A mistake is related to forgetfulness, carelessness and lack of attention.

The big question was: Do we have to correct every single mistake or error that students make?

The answer is NO, because if we rectify everything, we are cutting the STT (student’s talking time), we are not letting them to finish a whole sentence. Moreover, if you correct everything, the children will lose attention. Remember that you are correcting a mistake, you are correcting a person.

Something we would like to highlight is the tip given for "How do we correct?"

The tip consists of using “hot cards” or “invoice books”, which we typically see that are used by the waiters to write down what it is ordered.