'aha' moments

Unit 1 

I thought how to teach speaking by Thornbury.S was a very intertesing reading as whole. But the 'aha' moment for me was the speech condition. We often don't realize but speech condition can make a huge difference in one's performance. If you are giving a speech between the known people of yours I think you can do much better (in terms of fear factor) and I would feel more comfortable as well around that particular group than giving speech between unknown group of people which can make you nervous or uncomfortable in such kinds of settings. Any other thoughts on that??

Unit 2

In Harmer.J's reading my 'aha' moment was the passage about 'working with stress' because stress is important is words, phrases or sentences. It can be surprising, how focusing on the "stress - timed" quality of English helps students improve their pronunciation skills. I think one way to improve ESL students word stress problem would be - 

By taking a look at certain sentences and then clicking on the audio symbol to listen to the examples showing the difference between the sentences spoken. First listen to the words/sentences and than try pronouncing it. This way they can improve their pronunciation as well.