HUAIROU, Beijing Province:

Doing my second lesson about music this week - is much more fun this week coz there's not loads of reading, and I'm focussing on lyrics (Ne-yo - 'So Sick') and MTV (The Bravery's music video - 'Honest Mistake').

Nightmare though - the sound system wasn't working in Class 12! Kinda hard to do a lesson about music when they can't hear anything!

So that blew out my entire lesson plan - had to make the 'discussion' (which I'd only planned as an extension activity) last for 25 minutes! Feel so sorry for my Class 12, they always get a bum deal!