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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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 Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: conversational routines?? |
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I'm teaching my first conversational class next Tuesday and I'm a bit stumped. My job is to be an English speaker and talk a lot but I'm unsure how I am supposed to do this as the Korean co-teacher is the one going through all the actual text material. All that is left for me is to read passages and ask students questions.
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: conversational routines?? |
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| E_athlete wrote: |
I'm teaching my first conversational class next Tuesday and I'm a bit stumped. My job is to be an English speaker and talk a lot but I'm unsure how I am supposed to do this as the Korean co-teacher is the one going through all the actual text material. All that is left for me is to read passages and ask students questions.
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Ask your co-teacher as to what you're suppose to do. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| they tell me im supposed to come up with the lesson plan yet at the same time they are telling me that im supposed to just talk and be a reference for 'good' English speaking. |
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ekul
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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If you can't figure out what to do for a conversational class...
Choose a topic, introduce some vocabulary, then attempt to invoke some opinions. It obviously depends on the level of their ability, I get asked to conversation classes with students who are not at that level so we do more role plays and conversation games instead. |
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nate2008
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like they want you to be the human tape recorder. Sorry to hear that. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| nate2008 wrote: |
| Sounds like they want you to be the human tape recorder. Sorry to hear that. |
this is actually what I asked them jokingly and they agreed. While my main objective is to keep my coworkers happy I dont want to be a one-trick pony either. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
If you can't figure out what to do for a conversational class...
Choose a topic, introduce some vocabulary, then attempt to invoke some opinions. It obviously depends on the level of their ability, I get asked to conversation classes with students who are not at that level so we do more role plays and conversation games instead. |
good advice, keep it coming~! |
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Bob_Salad
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Same Shoes, Different Hat.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Didn't you think about this before you came?
Buy a couple of books and projected yourself like you know what you're doing. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Didn't you think about this before you came?
Buy a couple of books and projected yourself like you know what you're doing. |
I was going to creatively wing it until I found out I was teaching a militant all boys high school. My recruiter intentionally did not tell me anything until I landed in Korea. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Some big issues here. first you will take time to learn how to teach conversational English. This is no big deal as we all start somewhere.
The really big issue here is the Korean teacher who is not moving over so you can teach conversational English. Believe me what they will be teaching will have little to do with conversational English. So you need to say excuse me I am here to do a job and you are not letting me do that.
The main part of conversation is students learning how to think and put words together to speak in sentences. Koreans tend to think that it involves learning phrases and strange grammar rules.
I have broke it down into students learning how to listen and also writing and speaking sentences. If they can't write a proper sentence it will tend to flow out of their mouth the same way.
Most important day is the day you tell the Korean teacher to step aside and please let you use your years of experience in using a language to shine through. good luck. |
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MissLady717
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| nate2008 wrote: |
| Sounds like they want you to be the human tape recorder. Sorry to hear that. |
lol that does suck... but on the brighter side... at least youre not being overworked? better to have too little to do than too much in my opinion haha. |
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