A Physical Training Lesson

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My name is Philip. I have a dog and his name is Benjy. He is brown and not very big, but he has big long ears. In the morning Benjy and I and some other children all meet in the yard of our house and then we go to school.

One morning our first lesson was physical training. It was warm in early autumn and we had our lesson at the sports ground. During the lesson we ran and jumped. At the end of the lesson we played games. The teacher watched us, showed us our mistakes, corrected them and gave us marks.

In the middle of the lesson one of the exercises was to run around the sports ground. All my friends were good runners, I ran very well too. I knew I was the best sportsman in the class. My portrait hung on the wall near the gymnasium door.

We ran very quickly. I ran in front of the other boys all the time. Soon I finished. My friends and I went to the teacher. I wanted to hear the teacher say to me, “Very good.” But the teacher looked down, picked Benjy up, held above our heads and said to him, “Bravo! You are the first sportsman in the class.”

For me that was a very good lesson — a physical training lesson.