Language is a slice of cake. How is it possible to compare a slice of cake to language? A cake is usually baked as one whole pastry and in order to partake some, we need a knife to divide or slice it. Similar to a language, one whole cake symbolizes one whole language and language teachers share only a slice of the language in the classroom. A lot of students are over confident about having to know their target language or ambitious to be fluent in that language at the end of the school term. However, one language is wide and dynamic that it is even impossible to learn 1% of the English words in just one sitting. As the idiom goes, "it's a piece of cake" which means it's straightforward or a child's play - certainly not! What we are teaching the students is a small portion of the whole and this slice of knowledge must be relevant and useful for their daily lives and future careers. Baking a cake must be done meticulously and accurately when mixing ingredi...