Tuesday, 11 March 2008

busy.

Deary me, I'm not keeping this as much up to date as I'd like, mainly because of work: I'm up to my eyeballs in exam arrangements (part of my job is to organise the Skills for Death exams and the Cambridge Main Suite one), and running round making sure certain other people do their jobs vis a vis looking after their own areas and getting data to me. Also, I'm embedded - no bogged down in - reading about the history of ELT and the various methodologies, approaches and theories, written by the kind of writer for whom a night watching paint dry would count as excitement beyond belief. However, write this I must, as I promised myself I would. Well, what's on the menu for me today? I'm startingh with an upper intermediate class, and we're visiting the wonderful world of homonyms and homophones; After a quick dash into town for an urgent bit of business, it's on to the Academic English class, and Language Comparison; then in the evening, an Advanced class, where I'll be looking at some reading skills and probably a bit of CAE related stuff. Excitement. And once I've got home, round about 9.30, it's aquick meal and some more dip work.

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