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I really don’t seem to be able to get the hang of …

I really don’t seem to be able to get the hang of pitching my target language at the right level - today, teaching the upper group, I made my lesson too easy. So I’m spending this evening trying to think of fiendishly difficult vocabulary items to introduce to them on Wednesday… imperilled, for example, and tuberculosis. Just hope I don’t over-compensate and pitch it too high! I’m also having difficulty maintaining an authoritative, teacherly air. I think it doesn’t help that most of the students are older than I am…

It seems like we’ve been taught most of the things that we’re actually going to be taught, now. We still have a few more classes - some more grammar, and a lesson on comparing the different available coursebooks - but mostly now it’s practice teaching and working on individual student profiles. A highly effective, if slightly uncomfortable, way to learn. I’m used to finding things out from books and then discussing them with my supervisors, not jumping in at the deep end and actually trying to put my new knowledge to some practical use!

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