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    The article, How to Teach English- the 10 Most Helpful Pieces of Advice, published on www.really-learn-english.com mainly mentions how to teach English in a better way. I agree with the writer on the tips that help teachers teach English better because of three reasons. The first reason is the belief that forcing students to learn does not bring success. Actually, I can understand teachers clearly. Because of the fact that they feel responsible when their students do not make progress in their lessons, they think that they can prevent this failure beforehand by forcing them. However, I am sure that forcing generally creates opposite influence on them. In other words, failure is being an inevitable situation due to the fact that forcing occurs during teaching process. The second reason why  I have consensus on with the author of article is that encourage has a great importance in teaching process. As I know from my educational background, giving encourage to students make them have more self-esteem and the belief that they can do if they want. In this matter, on account of the fact that teachers should praise their students’ work whenever possible, the students will be happy and study fondly like I was. Therefore, I attach importance to this point as a candidate teacher. The last reason is that teachers balance lessons between different skills. I think this is the most fundamental tip that should be put into practice. As I observe and experienced by myself, this problem continues in schools. It should be known and accepted that teaching merely grammar is not helping the students. In addition to grammar teaching, communication skills, reading, writing and vocabulary building should also take place in lessons. According to me, they are as important as grammar and students need to improve their all skills. All in all, there are several reasons of my agreement with the author, and I am quite sure that these tips that I mentioned can help teachers instruct English better.