students who don't talk!

Ha, am meeting the same problem that I had with all of you in J1! 

I'm teaching a group of students who have very minimal language ability, the kind that has to check the dictionary when you compliment them on giving a 'smart answer!' and don't know what 'each other' means! And as we all know, I hate classes that don't respond, and it's especially difficult with this class because you know they don't respond because they really really don't know what you are talking about. Sigh, next week is the make or break week...if I can't get this people to understand the basic English that I'm gonna teach them next week, then I'm probably not gonna be able to survive in ESL teaching.