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Hm. I definitely have less work to do this evening…

Hm. I definitely have less work to do this evening, but it seems to be taking me just as long to do it! Transcription takes a very long time. So does finding all the bits you need to hand in and putting them in the right folder… we were advised at the start of the course to always file things in the right place the moment we’d finished with them. This was a bit too organised for me - but now I’m wishing I’d listened!

So. Second ever lesson went better than the first - some of the students actually seemed to learn some of the language I was trying to teach them. Hooray! Next week I’ll be teaching the upper group rather than the lower group. I’ve just got used to making all my language super-simple so that the lower group understand it, and I think it’s going to be quite difficult not making next week’s lessons too easy - apparently the upper group are very good at English. I still don’t know how anyone can manage to pitch the language at the right level without having taught the group at least a couple of times first.

This afternoon we had more grammar - passives. Because I’ve studied a lot of grammar before, I’m finding it quite easy to follow the grammatical part of the course. But I think people who haven’t done much before are finding it quite difficult, because we do just have to go through it without there being much time for explanation.

We’ve got more Russian in the morning and… a free afternoon! Well, free to do our transcriptions and foreign language journals and things. Looking at the timetable, it does seem to be a little more relaxed from now on - more lessons to plan and assignments to hand in, but fewer input sessions at college. And it’s amazing how quickly the first week and a half (40%!) has gone.

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