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!
Here’s an interview sheet for my Let’s Go 4A kids, where they can practice using the past perfect (was going, was doing).
This handout is for a somewhat advanced Intro A class. We won’t work all of the structures in the first class, just say the first 3 or 4. But the interview will be the fun bit of class. The secondary bit will be assigning people to write, using either questions or in declarative form, a personal ad for the newspaper. It’s the same as what’s included as a handout in the teacher training files uploaded on the same day, and I think it’ll be a fun exercise.
This is a lesson plan for this summer’s teacher training session, for use with Unit 6 of the TELL ME MORE! ESL textbook. Some of it is highly cryptic, and might not be much use to anyone but me. But I’m putting it here anyway. If nothing else, they illustrate one principle of my teaching (and also of my learning strategy when it comes to a foreign language), which is, hammering away at a given structure until it comes somewhat naturally.
Ever since about a month ago, I’ve had a kind of niggling little problem eating away at my thinking. At that time, I was discussion nationalism and the rule of law with my famous Northstar class. I asked the class about what they thought of the Geneva Conventions and the justifiability of war… basically asking if the idea of a “just war” philosophy or tradition is acceptable, since the validity of that idea is something the code outlined in the Geneva Conventions to some degree implies. One of the students got herself into what I thought was a conundrum. Except that …
요즈음 고드가 너무 빠빴지만 이 블록에 엄정 쓰고싶었어요. 시간이 없었어서 생각을만 했어요. 찻는 소식이: 고드와 여자친구는 해였어요. 다시 혼자야… 하지만, 새옹 지마: 이 주일에 소식이 왔어요… 8 월에 고드는 교수님 될거예요! 전주 대학교에 가요. 그래서 행복 하고 있조! 어렵는 것은 있지만 고드의 생월이 좋아요! 그리고 새로운 노래들이 만들었어요… 한 노래가 고드 공연에 노래 핼거예요! 이 노래 “Spiritwood” 이다… 공항 생각 하기 때문에 이 노래에서 Saskatchewan 생각을 있어요. 아이고. 오늘은 수영 했어서 힘들어요! 가요…
This is a page that has links to Career Centres at most of the major universities in Canada. Cool, huh?
Here is an interview paper for beginners in Intro A, with some original question formation activities at the end.
One of my friends and my bandmate wrote a song about this recently. According to him, a wetland used by birds migrating from Russia to Australia is facing “development” on the order of being paved with concrete so that “love-hotels” (that is, by-the-hour sex hotels, not uncommon here as an escape from repressive home life) can be constructed. I’m collecting articles for students to debate about it with some information at their fingertips. It’s probablt the first big environmentalist issue I’ve heard about since coming here, except for the silly culinary preference for female crabs which is destroying the crab …
Here’s an interesting opinion article on Noh Mu Hyun. I don’t know enough about him for now to comment myself, but I will try get some students to talk about him and also I’ll read more so I can try develop an opinion of my own that is informed by something other than just highly partisan newspapers.