Here’s the new stuff in my life… 1. After a few botches at the local hair shop I sometimes go to, I told the hair shop girl to just go ahead and shave off my hair, including my precious sideburns. (No worries, they’ll grow back.) So I’m now at 12mm of scalp hair. I like it. The kids in my classes told me I look like a crazy man, but the adults’ reviews have been a little more mixed, from “Oh, I liked it better the other way,” to “You look like very healthy man now!” So… anyway, it’s cooler …
Month: July 2003
Present Continuous with Be Verb worksheet
Here’s a worksheet focused on different forms of present continuous statements using the verb to be. There are statements, and questions as well. The students should (a) be told not simply to ask the questions on the sheet, but also to ask follow-up questions, and (b) to make a few of them own in pairs to ask their classmates.
Let’s Go 4A Unit 3 Test
Here’s a new test for Let’s Go 4A Unit 3.
Clothing Adjectives
This is a document containing just one thing: a large-print list of adjectives for clothing, to be using in question forming exercises at a very basic level.
Description Exercise
This document is an exercise for description. The first part is for dealing with physical description. The teacher has students ask him questions about some specific person (I usually say his best friend). As he answers the questions, he draws a picture of the person on the board, element by element, only drawing what is known from his answers. Students must ask more questions, about specific elements, until the picture is complete. The second half of the document includes some material for questioning one’s partner about the best friend’s character. (No picture is necessary here, but students should be asked …
Rice Fields
Here are some pictures of the rice paddies near where I have been working in Iksan. I see the fields each day on the way to work. Here’s a before and after picture… spring, and summer. The rest of these are just shots I liked of this road that I walk every day.
ESLsource beta testing
Hey, for ESL teachers… I was asked to plug it, so what the hell. I don’t have time to test myself, but… there’s a new ESL information source that supposed to “enable teachers to interact and add information on agents, schools, countries, working, living, travelling, teaching and even write a personal diary complete with photo galleries!” If you wanna take part in the beta-test, go here. But I don’t know any more about it. This is just a plug for something that might (or might not) be interesting.
New Idioms for Describing People Sheet
Here is an idioms sheet for describing people that’s more suited to Intro A level, taking of course for granted the level of English that most Korean Uni students (the bulk of my Intro A students are these) have these days… which isn’t astounding but is better than one might imagine.
Transcripts and other tangled webs
Well, the thing about getting a job as a professor is that everyone is pickier about records. So, today, I sent over a lot of my paperwork. My MA diploma is already over at Jeonju University, but my BA diploma (in fact, certification letter as a diploma took too long to have printed off) and transcripts, and the letter releasing me from my current contract were sent to Jeonju as a registered post today. (They’ll arrive tomorrow.)
요즈음…
안뇽하세요! 요즈음은 어렵는 시간이다… 하지만, 떠 어렵지아니에요… 모두 말하고 싶지아나요. 하지만 때때로, 생월에, “세옹지마” 말하기 말해야되요. 때때로 하고싶는 것 있을수없어요. 하지만, 보통 피료 있는 것 있어요. 다른 것에, 모두 잘 하고있어요. 매일에 Intro A 가르치고 있어요. 매 반 안 똑같지만 좋아요. 오늘은 원탑에서 학생들이 보고 만았어요. 좋은 사람이야! 좋은 이야기 했어요… 전주에 가는 것 재미있을거에요. 하지만 좋은 익산 친구들이 보고 싶얼거에요. 아이고. 익산 월거야되요… 아이고… 약속 있어요!!! 빨리 가야되!!! 안녕!