Another generic update...

[graculus]

Nearly at the end of term, thank heavens.

First off, the student teacher did not come back. I'm hoping it's been suggested to her that perhaps teaching is not really her thing and she ought to consider something else, but I have no idea if that's the case or not. I'm currently in the middle of organising and managing exams, not to mention

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[penfold_x]

It's very grammar-heavy at that level, which is no issue for me, except making sure that I know how to explain the rules (which I've discovered is quite a different thing from knowing if something is right or not when I read it).

Oy, that is the worst part of learning a foreign language for me -- that that English grammar that I don't actually know proper names for!

I wish thee many otters.

[graculus]

I think I must have blanked out the experience of learning French and what different bits of the language were called, so it's kind of karmic that I'm now on the other side of that dynamic. There's a few new bits (conditionals of various kinds, for one) but the rest is stuff I've already taught or at least know about.

I want to get to the point where I'm all 'oh, not another otter!'. ;)