It can be tempting to speak a lot of L1 in the early days of the school year, but if you teach high frequency verbs and some useful classroom verbs early, you can keep Maury away.

Here’s a helpful list to get started: https://www.brycehedstrom.com/wp-cont…/…/IMPORTANT-VERBS.pdf
The first part is based on Mike Peto and Terry Waltz’s work.