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Medic · Joined: 11 Mar 2003

Bugs me when you get a smart arse student who thinks you aren't capable. Happened to day in fact. I had just given back a written assignment that my English major students had completed the previous week. I marked all of them as carefully as I could, and graded them from 1 to 10. The students were 2nd year students, and don't talk too much. Their writing though was surprisingly good. Better in fact than I expected. Anyway I read out two of the best assignments, and carried on with the class. After class though this one particular student has the nerve to come up to me, and ask me how I could have possibly marked all the papers. Tone was real patronizing, kind of implying that I as a conversation teacher couldn't possibly have the ability to do it. Sheesh. Luckily for me I was quite thorough, and I was able to show her where her and all the other good students slipped up, and that shut her up. She in fact was one of the better students, but to her chagrin I graded a few other students better than hers. She didn't like that.

ratslash · Joined: 08 May 2003

when they try to correct your pronunciation. that winds me up!!!!! Mad

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

try these and see what you get..

hot dog - 1/2 american 1/2 british
chuppa chup
aloe
cocoa
pc bang

then tell them they are all wrong with thier korean pronunciation. it is actually.... an yung hay say yo and car sar ham ni dah (stress each syllable)
not fair is it... they can tell us we speak incorrectly but we can't tell them.. kinda funny i spose.. (screw the english on here, this is a chat not a lesson)

best yet is hanmail

makes me mad too bro

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Medic · Joined: 11 Mar 2003

Students were university students.

Have gotten the same thing from adults sometimes. Was helping a Korean TOEFL teacher with her notes for her upcoming class. I was actually helping her with the listening part of the exam. She couldn't understand all the stuff, and didn't have a script, so I listened and corrected her material. The stuff was no problem, and was only basic, but she expressed a great deal of surprise that I could understand it as well as I could. Gee Whiz. What kind of impression are they picking up about us English speakers. or is it an arrogance about how good they think they are, because they had to work so hard. Or what.

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

i will repeat this.. i have said it many times

korean students work harder than we did when we studied but..... they do not work anywhere near as hard as all this crud i hear about. all this sympathy for the poor korean student Laughing

they do longer hours with less work.. seems even to me..

oh yea.. they say they studied all weekend, they're telling you a lie.

when i was in school, a lesson was a lesson... i didnt get chocolate for working hard.. i just had to. my teacher did not have to entertain, he just taught..

if you disagree.. shoot back

it has been proven to me many times

it is used as an arguement as to why korean people are better than the rest of us..

by the way kim chi cures SARS

ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

ever have students wonder what you are talking about when you say fanta. no teacher it is huanta.

posco's trumpet · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Beneath the Underdog

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

My first teaching contract was in Pusan, and one of my students was an English vampire. She was married, had no job, no kids, and spent about 8 hours every day on her hobby, studying English. Gave everybody serious attitude. She would come to class and test me with Latin phrases like, "what does in loco parentis mean?" Her spoken English was excellent, she didn't need to be at a language school at all. However, she hated foreigners. Hated American soldiers stationed in Korea, felt Korea was best at everything, and had been kicked out of at least three hogwans for arguing with the native English teachers before she came to my school. Apparently that was her real hobby, arguing with foreigners. Managed to put up with me for three months, and was a money-loser for the school because no other student could stand her attitude and would flee the classes she was in.

Bizarre experience, to say the least.

simulated stereo · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject:

Say this in class: "Rural rulers rarely rule regally" and ask them to repeat it. That'll shut 'em up.

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Ha! That's funny, MOS! Sounds almost tit-for-tat like this middle-aged female student I used to have-impressive but annoying as hell. The only difference? She was a Japanese xenophobe, not a Korean one.

FUBAR · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: The Y.C.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003