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[Fishead soup]

It would be the perfect blending of controlled practice with the Korean teacher intervening to give tidbits about the Exam. The Native speaker would be acting silly, but friendly, and showing lots of PPT images of his/her hometown, or customs ,and holidays in his home country.

First five -ten minutes a PPT slide show directed by the foreign teacher. This would also allow the Korean teacher to arrive late and find where in the textbook they left off. She/she then asks in Korean

A short period of questions made by the brightest students directed towards the Foreign teacher . The Foreign teacher answers them in a witty and funny way. This is followed by the Korean teacher translating everything. Then they would go straight to the text. For lots of Choral repetition and translation.

" I'm not happy with my appearance. I want to grow taller."

This would be followed by the classic formulative test. Or online jeopardy game to test how much the students learned.

" Tell us a typical cultural difference?"

" Americans don't like spicy food"

" Good for you here's some candy"
" Americans usually wear their shoes in the house"

This entire lesson is staged to look good for the Vice Principal or Supervisor who sometimes pop their heads in the classroom. About once every six months.

[Chet Wautlands]

Biting satire. Keep up the great writing.

[Straphanger]

Are you kidding? Great writing? That's not even good satire. OP, if that's your situation, you need to seriously grow a pair and start taking control of your own work.

[bobbybigfoot]

[Big Mac]

I don't understand half of this.

There's no beginning, the sentences don't make any sense and what the hell is PPT?

Learn how to write!! Sometimes I wonder how people with such poor communication skills can get jobs teaching English.

Is the OP friends with buymybook and The Great Toad?

[sineface]

[sinsanri]

Actually I am insulted by that OP as all the Korean teachers I have worked with have been no where near the person described in that 'satire'.

All of them cared about the students, took time to prepare good lessons and went the extra mile for them and even took their own money and bought snacks for them.

Many remain my friends today and they take great interest in the future of their students.

I realize that some people have different experiences but let's leave the generalizations out of relating your hardships, please.

[moosehead]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

I didn't think this was funny... actually, it sounds a lot better than my KET's lessons... which basically involve my real class time being canceled (so the homeroom teacher can show off instead), and her telling me that I don't have to do anything for a few weeks.

Then, after school is finished on the evening before the open class, she tells me that actually, I have to do it with her the next day.

Also, I've never used the book before in my life (we use different books, and teach separate classes), and have no idea how to sing the songs and rhymes that they have already practiced over and over.

The parents come in and watch her horrible lesson, and I sit there and try to appear useful in some way, am obviously less familiar with everything than the students, get nervous as hell when she tries to include me... and end up hoping that the parents don't think this is what I always do, even though they probably did.

[Chet Wautlands]

[Xuanzang]

[Illysook]

I can get behind this as good satire.

[Straphanger]

[friendoken]

Korean apologists unite!

I worked in that festering dungheap for one year. I didn't have the experiences most of you schmucks have because I didn't work in a hagwan. Nonetheless, it sucked.

I ask you, is there anything more pathetic than an apologist...other than a Korean apologist???

They don't like you Larry, Moe and Curly Joe. Get over it already. You are monkeys. You are expected to jump through hoops. You jump through the hoops. The Koreans clap and say,"Good job monkey!" And, all of you sad losers still stand up for the Koreans; the same people who will turn on you like rabid dogs at the slightest sign of disobedience.

Schmucks! 'Tis to laugh.

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

I read the original post as a literal description of his Korean co-teacher's wishes. Certainly it comes close to what not a few Korean teachers have tried to foist on me in the past.

I guess we should be relieved that the original poster's co-teacher is not as bad as that.