Here’s an interview sheet for my Let’s Go 4A kids, where they can practice using the past perfect (was going, was doing).
Category: KOREA
Be Verb Handout, Unit 3 of Intro A
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.
Teacher Training Lesson Plans
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.
Romanticism and Nations
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 …
근 소식을 왔어요!
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…