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Yu_Bum_suk
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Helping students prepare for suneong reading questions |
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| Last night two of my students called me asking if I could help them study for reading questions on their suneong / Korean SAT test. They also expresed quite a distinct lack of confidence in their Korean English teacher. TOEIC style teaching for 'reading' is the one thing I totally avoid when teaching. Apart from just answering their questions and explaining vocabulary, I'm not really sure what techniques a native-speaker should use. Does anyone have any experience with this or know of good resources. These are smart, motivated students who can hold a conversation but are far from fluent. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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I would just give some tips on how to attack certain questions that way it doesnt matter what the content of the questions are, because the pattern usually stays the same.
My kids did well on the mock test last week. The lowest score I had was 46/50. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
I would just give some tips on how to attack certain questions that way it doesnt matter what the content of the questions are, because the pattern usually stays the same.
My kids did well on the mock test last week. The lowest score I had was 46/50. |
Really? Holy shit. My best scored 44/49 (disregarding question #29). Do you work at a foreign language high school?
Good point though. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| T-dot wrote: |
I would just give some tips on how to attack certain questions that way it doesnt matter what the content of the questions are, because the pattern usually stays the same.
My kids did well on the mock test last week. The lowest score I had was 46/50. |
Really? Holy shit. My best scored 44/49 (disregarding question #29). Do you work at a foreign language high school?
Good point though. |
No, but we generally do pretty well for a public school.
Not many FT's teach 3rd grade, so its cool discussing things other than the usual gabble on this board. THere are some decent Reading books that have short passages and a vocab/grammar check after each passage. I could rec. a few if you want. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| T-dot wrote: |
I would just give some tips on how to attack certain questions that way it doesnt matter what the content of the questions are, because the pattern usually stays the same.
My kids did well on the mock test last week. The lowest score I had was 46/50. |
Really? Holy shit. My best scored 44/49 (disregarding question #29). Do you work at a foreign language high school?
Good point though. |
No, but we generally do pretty well for a public school.
Not many FT's teach 3rd grade, so its cool discussing things other than the usual gabble on this board. THere are some decent Reading books that have short passages and a vocab/grammar check after each passage. I could rec. a few if you want. |
Your school must have some kind of unusual standards for a PS if it's producing those kinds of scores. My students did to slightly better on the listening part than the reading, so possibly having me for the past three years has had something to do with it, but the over-all scores kind of left me feeling like I've had hardly any impact. The problem is that in our rural area the stadards to enter our school's moongwa programme are just too low. Many enter already too far behind, and should really be in our sangwa programme, at least for English (and probably other academic subjects as well). However, if they can't be in ours their parents might place them in an even smaller rural HS that has even lower standards than ours. As mediocre as our school is we do get some students from other even smaller towns in our county because our school is regarded as one of the (relatively) better ones.
I'd be happy for any recommondations you have for books; I suspect that the students already have some of those kinds but if you know of a really good one perhaps I could pick it up next time I'm at Kyobo. The students would like to make a small study group that could meet a few times a week. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Im at an academic HS in Bundang. We send quite a few students to the SKY universities every year. Im currently working with my students on the Early admissions process for Korean Universities as well as North American.
Check out Essence Reading by Longman.
It's reading passages area about 2 pages long. There is a MC comprehension check, fill in the blank vocab check and a grammar focus at the end of every passage. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the tip. Is it just one book or a series with different levels, and if so, what level is best for grade 3 HS? |
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T-dot
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Its a series.
Check it out and see if it suits your students.
You doing any soosi prep or noonsol? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
Its a series.
Check it out and see if it suits your students.
You doing any soosi prep or noonsol? |
Actually one of the students who called me last night failed her susi test. I've done a little bit, but only in terms of preparing English introductions for interviews. |
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