No, it’s not yet snowing in Jeonju. It’s just that we had a camp meeting last night and Myoung and I are preparing the documents for the camp. That means a lot of paperwork and preparations. I’m trying to make the worksheets for the kids look a little more interesting, as well as easier-to-read, so it’s a bit of work. But I have it mostly finished now, though having printed them and seen how they look, they need a little more work. Layout onscreen always differs from layout on a printed product. But the hardest thing, I’m discovering, is explaining …
Category: KOREA
What Formalized Feedback Is Good For…
Today my teaching was evaluated. It was pretty nerve-wracking, really, knowing that it was coming. I think I was maybe second or third, though I’d thought beforehand that I was first. I didn’t think much about the relative benefits (real or imagined) of being first, or not, but it was nonetheless nerve-wracking. Well, my supervisor qualified his evaluation pretty heavily beforehand, saying it was just one person’s opinion of one class session on one day—for he did it alone, and only during my 4:30pm class today. And sure, I got to choose which class he would evaluate—naturally, my best class, …
한국어 포스트 eclexys에서 왔어…
옛날에 한국어 블로그 있었는데 요즘 그 블로그 update 안했어. 그런데 요즘 한국어 공부를 다시 시작 했어서 까금 한국어 쓰기 연습 하고싶어서 eclexys에서 in Korean category 만들었지! (여기서 볼 수 있어요.) 그리고 엿날의 포스트들은 거기서 볼수있어요… (I’ve recently begun studying Korean again and while I don’t have it in me to sustain regular posting in Korean as I once did on my old Korean blog page, from time to time I would like to practice my writing in Korean, so I’ll post here. I’ve imported my old Korean blog’s posts into a category on this blog, called “In Korean”, which is …
Habits, Schedule, and Like + Infinitive Activity Sheet
Yet another activity sheet, this one done up for the girls at the high school, using a bunch of common verb phrases and some question & answer patterns for expressing like or dislike of a given activity, frequency of the activity, and schedule of activity. It should take a good hour of class, and follow-up activities can be interviewing another kid in the class, making a daily schedule, (after teaching, “What do you after that/next?”) and anything else you can think up. Not pretty, but usable.
More Evidence of Student Insanity
Here are some lines and snippets of conversation from student-prepared dialogues I’ve heard this week during conversational English exams: Student A: What are you doing these days? Student B: I’m selling drugs. Student A: (shocked silence) Student B: What? It pays well, and I sell drugs, but I don’t take a medicines! Let’s change the topic of conversation! What are you doing these days? Student A: I’m studying criminology. You’re a really good subject of study! How often do you go out to sell drugs?… At this point they launched into the “How often do you____? Where do you ____? …