thinking between lessons ruins your appetite.

A very quick post, as I'm in a break between classes. Yesterday turned, once more, into one of those where a whole lot of paperwork gets done and not much else. So, once again, I didn't get much of mty presentation completed. I'm still tussling with a couple of the key ideas relating to the whole distance thing, but I'm about to try a notion in class and see what the students make of it. Probably a shed load of confusion, but what the hey. They've already been shown the way that we can concieve of past forms as being notionally 'there'; what we're going to do now is compare narrative tenses and see what happens. How is the third form of the verb more apart from the second form? are the past simple and the past continous in the same 'there'? does the past perfect occupy a space that is best described as 'beyond there' and how does this relate to the notion that the present perfect occupies a space inbetween the present and the past?
let's see how they deal with these.