I don't know if your joking,because it seems unbelievable that anybody would think your methods would be effective in the classroom, except to bore the pants of everybody in sight.

If I turned up for one of my Middle School classes and attempted to present my class in a dry,sombre monotone, my students would ALL be asleep in minutes,much more I think I would be pretty quickly slumped over my desk asleep as well.

Even adult students would quickly switch off if they recieved such a presentation.

I have to recognise that many of the students in the private Middle School where I teach don't even want to be in the class learning English,in the first place!Their classes, which are seven days a week in my school, start at 6.45 in the morning ,and finish around 8.15 in the evening,and they are CHILDREN,many with the attention span of a wall(Have you ever tried to talk to a wall before?)I think most esl teachers know what I mean.

Your sombre, unadorned approach would CERTAINLY give you the impression YOU were talking to a wall,because I'm sure they would virtually all switch off in a very short time.

I believe that two teachers could give exactly the same lesson using the same lesson plan, to exactly the same class and one could have a great fun and active class while the other could fail miserably sending the whole class to sleep!

A bit of charisma is essential in the classroom.Being animated,alive,cheerful and stimulating can often do wonders to a class of unmotivated students.

Sombre? Monotone? Unadorned? Cold? Dry? Matter of fact?.It sounds the epitome of how NOT to do it!