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Friday 17th November: The Bottom Tightens!

November 18, 2006 David Hurley 3

I got a bit carried away in the TOEFL class tonight and in a fit of enthusiasm I began to hack a sentence to bits on the blackboard, separating pluperfect progressive from simple past and unravelling all the odds and sods so that the class could see why the only [Read more…]

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Friday 14th July: Noda Loses A Finger But Gets Ahead…

July 16, 2006 David Hurley 1

I didn’t play mahjong tonight because I was out celebrating the end of term with some of the TOEFL girls who I teach Friday evenings, and one of my “English Presentation” students, as well as Miree, a Norwegian of Korean heritage who was visiting Hiroshima for a few days. Because [Read more…]

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