Teaching with Bayley: Key Instructions

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(narrator) Highgate Wood Schoolin North London.

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Right, I'm off to my lesson.

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(narrator) Music teacher Teddy Prouthas a long day ahead.

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Seven hours of nonstop teaching,choir practice,

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and a parents' meeting.

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Bags off, coats off.

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Teddy qualified two years ago

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and finds these long daysparticularly stressful.

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Go and sit down.Take bags off, coats off.

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I can't go in to...

Brook, come here, please.

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He's asked John Bayleyto spend a day with him

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to suggest waysto make things run more smoothly.

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We've got four different ideasrepresented here.

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(narrator) First up,composition with 7L.

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How you choose to make thatinto music is up to you.

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You need to be in groups of five -no more.

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One group in each room.You can use any of the things.

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Keyboards are over there. Don't usethe ones on there. Off you go!

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Sir, it's not working.

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Right.

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OK, are you gonna do itas four pieces of music or one?

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- One piece.- One piece, all right.

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Andrew.

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Can you start acting your age,please?

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What happened, sir, I went like thatand it went like that on my eyebrow.

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Well, don't do that.

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I'll be back in about five minutesto hear what you've got,

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then suggest some ideas.

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- Sir, we can go with the beat.- All three. Good man, Greg.

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Guys, why are you out hereand not in your room?

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The keyboards don't work.

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So I said to use metallophonesand xylophones for this lesson.

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You're not talkingabout how this is gonna work.

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You've only got about seven oreight minutes left to sort it out.

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- (loud discord)- Fire!

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One thing I noticed, and I'm sureyou have too, is they goof around,

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and then you give thema 20-second warning

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and then the sense of occasionclicks back in.

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(children play instruments)

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That's an interesting interpretationof what I asked you to do.

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When they are practisingin the practice rooms,

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what should they be doing?

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Can you explain it to me? I'm 14.What do you want me to do, sir?

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I need you to experiment withthe sounds I've told you to use.

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- I then need you to...- On my own, sir?

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Or do I get to muck aroundwith everybody else?

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- Erm...- What do you mean?

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You need to work out a tune foryourself on your own instrument.

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Right. What languagedo you want to hear, sir?

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Do we screamover the instruments, sir?

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No. Soft tones,communicating sensibly.

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You should be listening toeach others' opinions as well.

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What opinions might they be?

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This works, this doesn't work,I like this, I don't like this.

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OK, I think I understand now. Do yousee what I'm pushing you to do?

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Yeah.

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When I come into these rooms,

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I want to see people sitting downwith their instruments.

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I want to see you practisinga tune first of all.

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I want to see people makinghelpful comments to each other.

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Then when you go into the roomsyou're reinforcing that behaviour.

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(narrator) Next,a listening exercise with 7U.

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OK, this is the piece of musicwe're going to listen to

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and try and analyse.

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(music plays)

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Can you divide half a page or soup into a box?

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Divide that into four

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and then put: flute, clarinet,

violin and cello.

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We're gonna listento the piece again

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and I want you to be listeningspecifically...

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to one of those boxes.

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So if each one of youpicks one instrument...

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Savannah...Each of you picks one instrument,

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see how you can describe it.

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They're listening to music.

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They're recognising instrumentsand they're thinking about it.

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I've got a "but", though.

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This little "but" is going to

continue through our narrative.

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When you introducedthose four boxes,

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if I'm watching you or,more importantly, half-watching you,

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I now have got these four boxes

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and I think you want meto write things in them,

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but I'm not sure what they are.

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(music continues)

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OK, if you think abouthaving dinner,

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instead of just saying,"Well, I had a roast",

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we're trying to say,"Well, I had chicken,

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and I had potatoes,and I had... Yorkshire pudding,

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and I had...I don't know... parsley."

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Now we need to describeeach one of those.

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So the roast potatoes werekind of yellow and very crispy.

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The sweet corn was yellow.

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So that's what we're doing in music.

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We're trying to say the flute isdoing whatever the flute is doing...

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So I should have done thatat the beginning.

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Yeah, bingo! I think we'll findlots of examples of this -

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that you're relaxed, you'reconfident, you've got them engaged.

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The high achievers are gettingwhat you want at once,

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and then you're going aroundsweeping up low achievers

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by explaining to them what to do.

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And did you noticethat you put the music on,

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and there were some boys talking,there were kids just staring at you?

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Then you walked over and said,"You need to be writing down..."

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You could say, "We're going towrite some of these categories

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in these boxes."

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"Look at the exampleI've worked up there."

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In a minute I'll turn the music on

and I'll be looking for people.

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I'm gonna see peoplelooking at the board,

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then I'm gonna see themwriting in the boxes.

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Erm... So I'm asking you to...

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"Explicit" is the wordI'm asking you for.

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Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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Bye-bye.

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(singing)

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(narrator) Over lunchit's choir practice.

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Two, three, four.

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(unconfident singing)

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Ugh! Stop.

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What was that?Come on, all at the same time.

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Shush, shush, shush!

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OK, listen. Listen.

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Listen.

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Right.Tenors and basses, what you get

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- is the altos...- (someone plays piano)

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What you get is the altosand the sopranos singing:

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(parts being played on piano)

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- OK? You need to... you...- (children talking)

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Girls...

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Pack it in.

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This thing about being explicitwith your teaching directions...

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Sometimes you're not explicitwith your behaviour directions.

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Not just saying, "I expectto see people facing me."

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"I expect to see you listening.I expect to see your sheets out."

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"I don't expect mobile phones eventhough this is a choir practice."

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"Do we understand each other?"

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And giving that directionwhen the going is good,

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rather than letting it goand then kicking in.

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You sit over on that table.

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A couple of you sitover on that table.

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(narrator) Final period - 8U.

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OK, Year 8.

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(narrator) The day'sbeginning to take its toll.

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Carlton, can youtake off your bag, please?

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(children talking)

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This isn't quiet. I'm gonna countdown from five to zero again.

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If, when I get to zero,you're not quiet

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I'm gonna have tokeep you back after school.

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Five, four, three,

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two, one, zero.

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(a few children talking)

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OK, clearly you didn't hear me.

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Adam and Gustavo, you two...

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You can come and see metomorrow at lunchtime.

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You can comeand see me after school.

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You were doing what we do a lotof the time - "That's not quiet."

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"I'll try it one more time."

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Bang - detention. Bang - detention.And they get their gloves up.

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(boy) Sorry.

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That was an inappropriate comment.

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No. If you want to play around,I can send you out.

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Play around? I'm going to be quiet.

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It's a very good plan. Right.

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(John) I ended up thinking,"I've got to be really careful

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I don't preach behaviourmanagement to this man."

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The thing about period five on a daywhen you've already done a lot,

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and given up a lunchtimeand arrived early

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and there's a parents' eveningcoming up,

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is you're not so inclinedto be patient with the children

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as you are earlier on.

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There will be dayswhen the smartest thing to say is,

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"Would you go next doorto Mr Walker's room, please?"

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"That'll help you settle downand stop me killing you."

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(Teddy laughs)

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You go in with them. It's fine.

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I'll find you a beater.Go back to your group.

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You're gonna have to use the endcos you don't know what to do.

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(John) I think there area lot of stress points.

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You can knock that downby two-thirds by being more explicit

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about what it is that we want.

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That extends tothe behaviour management

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and it extends tothe teaching and learning.

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What we're trying to do ismake you a bit more explicit

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with some of the moredistractible children,

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so that we can get rid ofthese rough patches.

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(narrator) A few days later, Teddy'srehearsing "Cabaret" with Year 10,

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who can be rowdy.

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He's trying to put some ofJohn's advice into practice.

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We're gonna do"Tomorrow Belongs to Me".

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(girl) Becky, come a bit closer.

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(clattering)

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(girl) Shut up!

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(Teddy) My expectation now is thatyou will not talk when I am talking.

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How are you gonna get your note?

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If I'm playing... (plays intro)

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# The sun on the meadowis summery warm

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# The stag in the forest runs free

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# The heart is a shelter,defies the storm...

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- No.- That's wrong.

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That's not how it goes.

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You're singing...

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You're right.That's what you're doing.

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You're singing the first line again.It's a different melody.

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- That's why I get confused.- We've sung that over and over.

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You've sung it without me,so you do remember that.

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You've just got to rememberto sing it.

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One, two, three, one, two.

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(singing, talking)

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Shh!

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OK, you've failed to meet myexpectation so far to be silent.

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If you do that again, I'm goingto send you out of this lesson.

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- Do you understand me?- Yes.

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You've got to think on the secondtime around you're going down.

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(plays first note) With the chords -one, two, three, one, two.

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# The sun on the meadowis summery warm

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# The stag in the forest runs free

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# The heart is a shelter,defies the storm

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# Tomorrow belongs to me

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Right. I thinkwe've cracked that one.

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(girl) Some people sang"the heart" really loud.

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# The heart...

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- Bye, sir.- Bye-bye.

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Hi, John.

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- Are you feeling better?- Yes!

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- Is something happening?- Yeah.

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What is happening in there?

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Well, I think...firstly I'm being more explicit

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about what I wantin terms of behaviour.

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"I'm expecting you to be quietat this point and listen to me."

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And I'm getting it. They're going,"Oh, OK. We need to listen."

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And they're listening.

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I'm still getting one or two peopletalking at the back,

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but it's much easier to dealwith that, to cope with that,

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than half the class not listeningand I'm going, "I'm waiting..."

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It seems to be much easier.

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