First of all, my apologies for not keeping this blog up-to-date; some people ended up not knowing about the homework to be done last weekend. So before I go any further - there's an essay to be written (see Homework tab).
We had an interesting talk by Alfonso on ancient music, and we all tried to get our heads round the "perfect aspect". The biggest problem seemed to be the difference between "Have you....before?" and "Had you ..... before?". The conclusion was that the former is used in a present context (i.e. "before" = "before now", whereas the latter is used in the context of a past-tense narrative (i.e. "before" = "before then").
Finally, we looked at a model text for a problem-solution essay and the use of "parallelism".
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