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After almost an entire day of trying to think of practice exercises, worrying about the right amount of vocabulary to teach to lower intermediate students, and shouting at my computer for not doing what I wanted with tables - I have finally managed to produce a complete lesson plan! Hooray! It’s 58 minutes long (instead of the prescribed 60), but the lesson itself will only be 45 minutes, so I’m hoping that will be acceptable. I’m also hoping that I’ll be completely better by Monday morning because otherwise, no matter how good the flashcards and memory game I have still to produce, I won’t be able to deliver the lesson for the spasms of coughing which seem to be afflicting me every five minutes…

Today has been something of a struggle, beginning in the morning (lovely, bright and frosty) as one brother went off ice skating, my mum and uncle went out for a walk - and I had to stay at home thinking about how to teach the topic of Retailing. I have to say, I didn’t expect to be making flashcards of ‘consumer durables’ and ‘own label goods’ at this stage (especially as it’s not business people we’re teaching). But the idea was to give us something the students were not very likely to have come across before. The hardest thing was thinking how to get enough practice of the words in, as they’re not really ones that come up very often in everyday conversation.

I get to leave the house in a minute(!) in order to go and buy more printer paper and coloured card. Then I’ll be cutting, sticking, and trying to draw pictures of guarantees and closed circuit television - which sounds quite fun really. Honest.

And after that? Finished for the day? Not quite… there’s still a profile interview to think about, also for Monday. And of course Wednesday’s lesson to start planning. I know it must get a lot quicker planning lessons, else teachers would have to spend five times longer working at home than they did at school, and I’m pretty sure life doesn’t contain sufficient time for that…

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