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I was kind of wrong about there being no more work to do… true, there’s nothing else to hand in, but now we’ve got a very long list of questions that the moderator might be going to ask us in our moderation interviews tomorrow. They’re all about one thing - the materials assignment - but there are a lot of questions…

And another thing, which really irritates me: somebody asked if we need to be smartly dressed in order to be moderated. The answer was a resounding ‘Oh, yes,’ and apparently we’re required to be attired at a suit-equivalent degree of smartness. I consistently fail to understand why people are required to don impractical, unflattering clothes which they don’t like, simply so that they don’t look out of place in a situation where others are wearing similar garments. Obviously it’s not possible to judge our effectiveness as teachers, how well we’re able to learn from our mistakes, and whether we’re actually any good at English, unless we’re wearing the kind of trousers that have fake pockets. Grr!

Reminds me of Patrick Barrington’s Diplomatic Platypus…
“I failed to pass the interview. The board, with wry grimaces,
Took exception to my boots and then objected to my braces,
And Purvis, too, was failed by an intolerant examiner
Who said he had his doubts as to his sock-suspenders’ stamina…”

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 at 5:30 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can leave a response to this entry.

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