The name is absent

E3

El

E3

El

Date

E2

Yeah but she wasn't saying it was perfect.
She was indicating there were faults with it.

I think she was Justtrying to counteract the
sort of, the totally negative criticism.

I don't think we were being negative
actually .

Well, that's how she saw it.

Well that's what I mean,
say about defensive.

That’s what I

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I did a training course for English as
a Foreign Language and I was taught and I was

given a basic framework with which to teach and,

of course, I had to fill it out - with experience.

The security of that structure, however

is anathema to a fellow student:

E3

I think they’re taught how to do that in
Modern Languages and they’re finding the course
really boring .....

But for E2 her early practical experience remains an unresolved problem:

E2

I mean I do feel in two minds about this,

that I feel that like it’s very sort of

easy

come, easy go at this school.

We were assigned

to different teachers and I was given a group

of four kids.

I was just given a group and I

didn’t know what the hell I was supposed to be
doing and I felt it was unfair on the kids because,
for example, they were working with work cards
and I felt that I was just sitting there like

a lump and then I thought well

I’11 ask them

what they're doing and one pupil was really

indignant.

I said that before, because I was

intruding and then I had another class, a fourth
year English class , where ɪ was just lumped with
this teacher I mean, and I wasn’t given any idea
of what I was supposed to be doing.