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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 12:41:08 GMT
I'm not surprised if you only scraped a pass! English Lit or Lang? O levels were much tougher than GCSEs. I think I got an F in it first time round, but they made me take it a year early and I'd only just turned 15. I got a B a year later.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 11, 2021 12:50:31 GMT
So a combined Eng Lit and Lang? They're two quite different subjects
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 12:51:48 GMT
So a combined Eng Lit and Lang? They're two quite different subjects They would combine them back then.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Jun 11, 2021 12:58:16 GMT
i got an A in both eng lang and eng lit o levels. nothing to do with my teachers. they were awful. i was quite lucky with lit because we were given two of my favourites to study: 'great expectations' and 'death of a salesman'. it was a breeze. i failed miserably at all other subjects.
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Post by rayge on Jun 11, 2021 13:23:09 GMT
I'm not surprised if you only scraped a pass! English Lit or Lang? I got an O grade for language and a D grade for Literature, two separate subjects. I was 14 and made the rookie mistake of writing a 'humorous essay'. I did get a distinction in use of English the following year.
I remember teaching The Tempest at some point, but I don't think any of them would go on to take O level in literature - I only taught 15-year-olds, so they wouldn't have taken any exams that year. And of course I had no teacher training at all. back then (1972, I think) you only needed an honours degree to get into teaching. It was a weird experience being a full-on long-haired druggy confronting loads of wannabe cops, who included two National Front members and one self-confessed football hooligan (West Ham!) who basically joined up because he fancied a ruck every Saturday without getting arrestedor banned.
And there was one notable occasion when I had to go in on a Friday morning (from Faversham to Ashford) at the end of term having been awake all night when I took some speed rather than barbiturate to come down off some acid I'd taken to watch some horror movies at the uni in Canterbury: fortunately the one class I had to teach was cancelled and I spent much of the morning in the staff bar drinking with the Chief Inspector who ran the place... there's more, much more, but until I dig out my diaries from their box in the attic, I'll leave it there, as, you know, half a century ago, and I've probably forgotten some juicy details,
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 11, 2021 14:44:59 GMT
In my brief (two terms) teaching career (police cadet college in Ashford) I had to teach English at O Level, a subject I had scraped a pass in seven or eight years before. I was not popular and nothing remotely spherical was to be had. A 2,000 word essay on why cannabis should be legalized probably didn't go over very well with police cadets.
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Post by rayge on Jun 11, 2021 15:17:38 GMT
In my brief (two terms) teaching career (police cadet college in Ashford) I had to teach English at O Level, a subject I had scraped a pass in seven or eight years before. I was not popular and nothing remotely spherical was to be had. A 2,000 word essay on why cannabis should be legalized probably didn't go over very well with police cadets.
.Actually I set them essay titles derived from song titles of the time. I seem to remember Give Ireland Back to the Irish and Woman is the N-word of the World didn't go down too well. They were all Gary Glitter fans if memory serves me well
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 11, 2021 15:37:02 GMT
Last evening around 7:30 or so, my neighbor across the street knocked on my door and breathlessly asked if my son was home. I think she did that because she's seen how strong my son looks. I told her I'd taken him to the airport earlier and asked why she wanted him.
She pointed to her husband, who'd fallen out of his motorized wheelchair and was lying on the ground. We ran over and he's around 400 lbs and the two of us tried getting him up. It was impossible, one reason being is I couldn't lift him by one of his arms because he'd had a stroke before and that arm hurt him.
She ran and got another neighbor. While she was getting the other neighbor and I was waiting for him, he said, "Helluva way to meet your new neighbor."
The neighbor and I got him in a regular wheel chair his wife had gotten from the house. I couldn't help myself, and as we were lifting him, I said, "I think I'm going to have a stroke." He was a big boy.
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 11, 2021 16:03:56 GMT
you're a good neighbor John.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 11, 2021 16:14:37 GMT
He's got a lot to learn about being an Oregonian though - a real one would've grabbed his AR and put the old fellow down.
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 11, 2021 16:43:35 GMT
...or scored some weed.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 11, 2021 19:49:32 GMT
Being here is having an influence. I bought a small pipe and will probably buy some this weekend while my son is out of town.
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Post by fange on Jun 11, 2021 21:46:19 GMT
When in Rome... 😄
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Post by tory on Jun 12, 2021 10:00:57 GMT
It's English rather than History, but right now I'm happy to have a potential permanent position than a year of supply. English teachers are often the most popular, firing up kids' imaginations with drama, poetry, new concepts (metaphor, cliche, litotes etc.). You'll have a ball! Yeah I didn't really have any hesitation accepting it to be honest. I've got a lot of reading to do over the summer, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 12, 2021 10:10:39 GMT
Put my flat up on AirBnB and there's already a booking for the last week in July! This means I have to 'deep clean' the place. I've got time, but it's a major pain in the arse (the oven, especially, but also the carpets). And moving things out of rooms into cupboards and under beds, so they have space.
This flat's been done out for a single occupant, of course, but as this is a couple that's arriving a single armchair won't do. So I finally ordered a sofa - and I'm out of pocket because the sofa cost more than I'm getting for the reservation! I suppose it's an investment.
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