In my opinion, active teaching should be very interactive, having students ready and willing to participate, teachers ready and well prepared for all activities to have students well engaged and focused in lessons and class activities. I think that when 'The teacher knows about learners lives and finds examples they can relate to' it enables more opportunities for students to open themselves to share and participate in class activities. If as teachers we stick to only one way of teaching for example only 'chalk and talk' students will not feel interested in participating and maybe they can even say that the class lesson was boring because they didn't participate or were not part of the activity because teacher only write notes and talk about it. I believe that as teacher we need to look very careful at the different ways our students learn so we cater for the needs of all them.