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Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

Right after you told him Huntsmans only eat nuts?

withnail · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea.

play 'em some crowded house - withnail's favourite band!

Cornfed · Joined: 14 Mar 2008

Enough good suggestions there. Thanks people. Now any ideas on particular activities to do with learning English that I could incorporate?

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

^Are you crazy?

Jeez, you'd need some kind of English teacher or something to help with complicated stuff like that.

The evil penguin · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject:

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

Please, please, please please don't EVER teach anyone anything about Shortland Street except to stay far, far away from it.

For those who don't understand, New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote.

Other interesting titbits:
in NZ, the native Maori were given the vote (men anyway) in 1867 - the US gave the vote to their natives in 1924, Canada in 1960 and Australia in 1968,
the Treaty of Waitangi; how there were two different treaties, written in English and in Maori, and how they were different,
NZ was the first country in the world to have women in the three top positions in the land (Prime Minister, Governor General and Chief Justice),
New Zealand is nuclear free (and the US government still has its nose out of joint over it),
New Zealand is the last major land mass to be populated (not including the Antarctic),
Ernest Lord Rutherford, known as the father of nuclear physics and the leader of the team of scientists that split the atom, came from here (a farm near Nelson to be accurate) and went to the University of Canterbury (as it came to be known), and
Sir Edmund Hillary, a bee-keeper and sometime climber came from here.

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

Show them the Haka and ask the little shits to write down what they think is being said. Once they've watched it a couple of times, go through the translation with them. If you're feeling really brave, split the class in two and get them to perform their own Haka in front of the other team, but in English.

Actually, this is a better version of it.

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

Katchafire · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:02 am Post subject:

I don't know what age the kids are that you are intending to teach .. but so far, IMO - a lot of the suggestions are going to be pretty difficult to teach, if not slightly boring and wouldn't be particularly comprehendible given that most of them would never have set foot outside of Korea.

I taught my elementary 6th graders about NZ (I'm from there). I found photos of each of the 4 major cities - Auckland (named The City of Sails - and why), Welllington (The Windy City - and why), Christchurch (The Garden City) and Dunedin (Known for the Otago University - the fun and trouble the students get up to - and that it was originally a Scottish community - and still keeps that heritage alive). They each had an outline map of NZ and had to locate each city on that map using the large coloured version I had up on the big screen.
This was after I'd shown them a world map and asked volunteers to come up and show where NZ was - which was entertaining.
I supplied city sizes and populations .. comparing them with areas/cities in Korea as comparison.
I showed them the following facts .. supplying photos "NZ has the worlds largest flightless parrot (kakapo), the oldest reptile (tuatara), the biggest earthworms, the smallest bats (the only native land mammals), the heaviest insect (a weta), some of the oldest trees, and many of the rarest birds, insects, and plants in the world."

I taught them about the first people in NZ - the Maori, again, showing some photos of traditional costumes, face tattoos (which the kids were amazed by), tradititional housing - and now, modern Marae's (Maori meeting houses, communities, etc).

I showed them the NZ flag - and some examples of ideas that have been come up with for a new one - and have them vote on which one they liked best .. as I also did with the Maori flag (all found on google).

I of course discussed our love of sport - in particular Rugby - reasons why the All Blacks were called that - and showed the Haka, having explained about it being a challenge to international challengers.

If your kids are older - then sure, highest mountains, famous NZers etc would be interesting I suppose - but perhaps not information they might retain - which would be a great goal afterall.

Best of luck with your lesson - and lay off us Kiwis huh??! Wink

- We aint all THAT bad you know.