Korean Job Discussion Forums

[teacha]

My public middle school wants me to give a 5 minute presentation each friday over the loudspeaker for all the students in the school. The speech is supposed to include a dialog I've made up (and will act out with myself).
"Be an English radio DJ," was all the advise my handler gave me for this.

Does anyone do this sort of thing at their school? I'm drawing a blank here on how to fill 5 minutes of air time with just a dialog?

[sobriquet]

Do some shock-jock stuff.

Ridicule the principal and the other KTs

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Why not use it as an intro for an English song, which you can use the next week as a listening excercise in class. If they want something dialogue-based you can use duets like Barbie Girl, Summer Nightes, or A Whole New World that the kids will like.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Do the Sister Mary Elephant voice and talk about today's lunch menu.

[VanIslander]

Gggggggggoooooooooooddddddddddd
mmmmmmmmmmoooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnniiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnngggggggg

Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmm, Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkk, Lllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees !

[Xuanzang]

Act out some Seasme Street. They just want some gibberish said anyway. or you could go the Howard Stern route and interview Jenna Jameson.

[nomad-ish]

[farrepatt]

I had to do something called "Morning English" last year. Basically every Friday they would film me doing 4 five minute episodes. Basically I just picked a topic and told my coworker who would write out the vocabulary and then I'd try and teach it (she'd translate) and then we'd repeat it each word a couple of times.

It was fairly poorly done with just the school's camcorder and me sitting behind a desk. It was also an elementary school and so they wanted topics that grade 1-6's could all understand and learn from (as if that is possible). Every week the grade 1 and 2 teachers would complain it was too difficult and the 5 and 6 teachers that it was too easy. The experiment lasted until September and then one day they just stopped asking me to film anymore. I think they did the math on how much it was costing them (I was getting overtime pay for the teaching hours) and they decided to stop doing it.

I suspect yours will probably have a similar fate once they realize that it's not going to be a quick and easy way for kids to learn English.

[ChinaBoy]

Speak as fast as you possibly can. Just read something (ANYTHING) printed off the internet, but so fast that no one can understand it.

Problem solved.

[D.D.]

The Mississippi river broke through a protective dike today. What is a protective dike is that a large women in comfortable shoes standing near the river saying stay away from the river, dont go near the river.

Yes the goodmorning koreaaaaaaaaaaaa thing would be funny.

In other news someone witnessed kimchi eating today. go on with crap like that.

[matthews_world]

Distribute a skit, chant or song to the home room teacher the week prior to giving the lesson. Have the teacher make copies for each student.

Systematically model the pronunciation of a few lines each day and have the students repeat.

Teach a piece of each song, skit or chant as part of your regular lesson that week.

Have students perform the lesson on the final day.

[Pwillig]

Read articles from the onion or just play some Dane Cook.

[hogwonguy1979]

i say d/l and play some stuff from howard stern's show. that would be good

[NoExplode]

That fact that you wouldn't tell them to f*ck off amazes me.

[tigercat]

Joke of the day!

Or recruiting for your little evil army...