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Cornfed
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 Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: Lessons after final exams |
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| I'm anticipating a certain lack of enthusiasm on the part of students after final exams next week. What do people generally teach at this time of year? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| DVDs. |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Movies. I would say pop songs but my kids can't even be bothered to concentrate long enough for those.  |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Lessons after final exams |
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| Cornfed wrote: |
| I'm anticipating a certain lack of enthusiasm on the part of students after final exams next week. What do people generally teach at this time of year? |
And how do you distinguish that from the earlier part of the year? |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| When are the exams? Do elementary schools hold them? |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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We're not allowed to show movies anymore.
Principal has this thing that his HS, should work harder than other HS's in order to achieve the success that he expects.
I guess the few students applying to Harvard, Yale and MIT from our senior class isnt good enough:( |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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I feel for ya. I think one of our students was accepted to beauty school last year... |
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Cornfed
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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What sort of DVDs are generally considered educational? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Cornfed wrote: |
What sort of DVDs are generally considered educational? |
That depends upon who's setting the standards to follow. For my post-exam lessons I guess that would be ... me. Well, I would consider something in English that keeps most of the kids' attention and is enjoyable to them, perhaps preceded by a brief related vocab sheet, the best educational activity for my students. So, I've gone out and blown W20,000 on High School Musical II. It's tacky, has cheesy, sanatised dialogue, a predictable, recycled plot, lots of crappy dancing, lots of Aryan looking teenagers and a toned black guy, and many stupid, catchy, repetative songs - in short there's nothing for Korean teenagers not to like about it.
Of course, I could try to find an instructional EFL video that could be accompanied by speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities, but I'd hate to think of what kind of drill sergeant act I'd have to pull off, what sort of punishments I'd have to dole out, and what sense of terror I'd have to create to make that work in the two weeks following exams. |
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cruisemonkey
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My middle school boys like: crashes, explosions and people biting other people's noses off. I'm currently showing Conspiracy Theory to the grade ones and U.S. Marshals to the grade twos. Oddly enough, profanity doesn't phaze them (I assume due to exposure to movies on TV), but when someone in the movie says "Shutup!", they go crazy.  |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| We are told no movies this year. Teaching grade three middle school students who had there exams two weeks ago has been tough. Next week it will be all grades pretending they like singing Christmas songs. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| We are told no movies this year. Teaching grade three middle school students who had there exams two weeks ago has been tough. Next week it will be all grades pretending they like singing Christmas songs. |
Oh that would suck. What a way to end the academic year on a negative note with the students who'll be graduating. |
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JJJ
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| D.D. wrote: |
| We are told no movies this year. Teaching grade three middle school students who had there exams two weeks ago has been tough. Next week it will be all grades pretending they like singing Christmas songs. |
Oh that would suck. What a way to end the academic year on a negative note with the students who'll be graduating. |
I finished grade 3 after they finished their exams a couple weeks ago. Now they just wander around, sleep, play video games, freeze their buns playing soccer on the rock hard gravel pitch and are just chillin'.
But now the first and second graders are almost impossible to teach because most don't care about the final next week, see the upper classmates relaxing and can feel the end is near.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I am actually looking forward to doing this camp in January. Most students want to be there, little higher level usually, we can do what we want, skip out early before noon most days and have fun. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| JJJ wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| D.D. wrote: |
| We are told no movies this year. Teaching grade three middle school students who had there exams two weeks ago has been tough. Next week it will be all grades pretending they like singing Christmas songs. |
Oh that would suck. What a way to end the academic year on a negative note with the students who'll be graduating. |
I finished grade 3 after they finished their exams a couple weeks ago. Now they just wander around, sleep, play video games, freeze their buns playing soccer on the rock hard gravel pitch and are just chillin'.
But now the first and second graders are almost impossible to teach because most don't care about the final next week, see the upper classmates relaxing and can feel the end is near.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I am actually looking forward to doing this camp in January. Most students want to be there, little higher level usually, we can do what we want, skip out early before noon most days and have fun. |
The week before exams I do a 'Golden Bell' style of review game (except no one gets eliminated) with my middle schoolers. After reviewing the dialogues the exam will cover I give each pair a white board and marker pen, and go through a series of different kinds of questions relating to the chapters the exam will cover. At the end there's a championship round for the three or four pairs who've done the best and the top pairs win little prizes. It's best to use one of those 마이쮸 candy packets or something with 8 or 10 little candies in them so that then the class nerds can become really popular by sharing it with their friends. It's always quite a popular activity. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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I was told no movies either, but sometimes show 12 minute episodes of Spongebob. Our final exams are next Tuesday on the 9th. I'm going to get one of them huge bags of that tough hard giant sized Korean popcorn you find at street markets and blow time stringin garlands and then teach some more English. Being that it's Christmas, you not only get to blow time doing regular song and chant, you also get to add Christmas songs and talk so you can get 20 solid minutes of music per lesson.
I never was good as doing games with a large group of elementary, but less than 10 is ideal for doing games of all sorts so I tend not to do games in PS. I too would prefer to use the video systems more when it comes time to reward them with something fun and easy.
Just go easier on em'. |
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