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Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Today students in my winter break speaking class are doing their group presentations. Each group had one chapter in which they were suppose to present vocabulary words and then do some sort of quiz.

When the third group got to the quiz portion of their presentation, they used the lyrics from this song which had nothing to do with the vocabulary words from the chapter they were assigned and I was thinking to myself,"where is this going?"

Then they did this skit with the song, which just outright shocked me. One of the male students walked in with a skirt on (no, that wasn't a typo) and another student walked up with a scream mask and a fake knife and he pretended to attack "her". I didn't catch the lyrics because I found myself a little taken aback by the whole thing, but at the end of the skit everyone pretended to take a picture together and be the best of friends.

I found the whole thing disturbing to say the least.

Thewhiteyalbum · Joined: 13 Nov 2008

Are you a bit of a rectangular type thing?

Yesterday · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:35 am Post subject:

I wouldn't call it rectangular at all (and I thought it was "square" not rectangle)

Anyway - his class (in groups) had one chapter in which they were suppose to present vocabulary words and then do some sort of quiz

basically it sounds like they just did some typical korean comedy skit - that are on TV shows...

(and pathetic comedy at that)

did they use any of the vocabulary?
did they attempt a quiz?

I would have given them a D.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I didn't give them a D, but I did give them about a mid C (though I am rethinking it now). The skit wasn't even funny. I've watched quite a bit of Korean TV and this isn't something I've seen on a Korean comedy skit.

By the way, I should add, the students in that group seem to be really nice guys, which is really why I'm so shocked at the skit. Maybe it was just humor gone very very wrong.

moosehead · Joined: 05 May 2007

if the "girl" fought back her attacker == C+

if she didn't == D-

then ask them to explain what was going on if you didn't understand it Shocked

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Do you encourage creative thinking in your classes? 'Creative' and 'unfettered' can be confused in young minds.

Passions · Joined: 31 May 2006

I suggest you watch this TED clip a few times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

jdog2050 · Joined: 17 Dec 2006

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

For the most part, of the 10 presentations in two classes, 9 of them were well done. This one presentation that I wrote about stood out as the one that went really wrong. I did lay out guidelines for the presentations, but do give students quite a bit of room to use their creative side.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Here's an assignment a friend showed me.
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ANggHprhQ
The assignment was "create a 2+ min video or audio recording of themselves reading a part from a movie, preferably a monologue." Warning: it will terrify any cats within hearing range.