Teaching Tip 13: Checking Together        1. It's a good idea to
let the students check their answers together before feeding
back to the teacher because it gives them the chance to rub
out/cross out any glaring errors before the teacher sees and
thus avoid looking stupid in front of the class.    2. If a
student hasn't a clue about some of the answers it's reassuring
to find out that their partner hasn't the foggiest either. The
students realise they are not alone. They can also copy their
partners answers (if their partner has some that they don't) but
their partner might not be right!    3. Peer teaching is
considered a good thing in the world of EFL. Peers are equals.
So in this case a students peers are a student's fellow
classmates. Working together and checking work together is a
form of peer teaching. This means that instead of the know-it-
all (and/or) mother-tongue teacher always teaching them, the
students can teach each other (by explaining grammar points,
correcting pronunciation, explaining new w