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I haven’t done very much work today. Instead of rushing straight home after church, Jon and I went to make a rope swing in the woods. Definitely a good decision! Everyone needs a chance to run about and get covered in mud sometimes, even in the middle of an intensive course

In the afternoon I started thinking about Wednesday’s lesson. The subject I’ve been given is, invitingly, ‘Simple Past and Past Perfect in a story’. I like stories. The one I chose in the end was that of the Victorian lifeboat heroine Grace Darling. Jolly good fun, and plenty of scope for sentences like ‘When it got light, Grace saw the survivors from her window. The ship had sunk in the night, and most of the passengers had drowned, but some people had managed to cling on to the rocks.’ Simple past and past perfect… lovely.

Still a bit worried about tomorrow’s lesson - teaching the higher group for the first time - but I decided that a day and half was quite enough time to allocate to one hour’s teaching. And I’m pretty sure that sometime at the start of the course, someone told us that our lessons could never be perfect. Just as well, really…

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