Alf Coles and Barry Orr reflect on what it looked like when Alf taught a year 7 lesson. In this article, Alf was asked by Barry (student) if he would take a lesson with the Y7 class that he had taken over from another teacher in the department in order to see what someone else might do with his lesson plans. Alf describes what some moments with the class felt like for him. One thing that stays with him now from the lesson is a feeling of pleasure in how the class seemed energised in extending the work they had been doing and noticing patterns to create tables in minutes that had taken several lessons beforehand. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures and 3 notes.)