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summer33ny · Joined: 10 Aug 2006

I will be teaching summer classes for my high school students 4-5 classes a day for 4 weeks...

This is not a one week summer camp where I can show movies the whole time. I have to pick out textbooks according to the various levels of students and make several new lessons plans everyday for each grade and level I am teaching!

I am excited to have classes full of my best students who have chosen to take my class. I enjoy my students and I am glad to weed out the ones who are unmotivated or whose abiltities are too low. But this a lot of work!!!

For anyone in the same boat, I am wondering what do you have planned????

I bought one textbook "Small Group Discussions for Korean High School Students". I thought it was the greatest. Simple readings about issues relevant for Korean students that we could then discuss! I like the idea of a "free talking" class. But my co-teacher for some reason does not approve of this. And I also found out that I will have over 20 students per class! Much bigger than a small discussion group. She suggested some really lame & dull textbooks that I have no desire to use... so I rather not have any book in that case.

Anyone else have experience with this? How are you structuring your classes? Textbooks your using? etc.

moptop · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Location: Gangwondo

I would suggest a more structured approach if this is what your korean teacher is looking for. some good books for this are "Talk Your Head Off (...and write,too)" by Branna Rish West, ISBN # 0134762010. it has Vocabulary, Usage (activies), Listening, A conversation question section, and surveys, activities, and comprehension at the back of each topic.

for lower level students, you could use "A Conversation Book: English in Everyday Life 4th Ed." by Tina Kasloff Carver and Sandra D. Fotinos-Riggs. ISBN # 0131500457. it has a mini-picture dictionary at the beginning of each topic, practice conversations, activities, chants, and fill in the blanks.

some other good books are:
"More Picture Stories" by Fred Ligon, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, and Carol Richardson Rodgers. ISBN # 0801308399. it has units that give pictures for students to describe, and you can pre-teach a lot of vocab and have them match it to the picture stories and make sentences. there is ordering, comprehension questions, re-writing the stories in your own words, activities, etc.

Also the "Can you Believe it?" series is good. by Jann Huizenga. ISBN # 0194372758. there are 3 leveled books. there is a short article with idions and expressions, a "comic strip" where students use the expressions, comprehension quesions, discussion questions, and a fill-in-the-blanks to practice. it can easily be adapted for different levels.

hope these help!

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Are these 4-5 different classes a day or the same students for 4-5 blocks a day?

summer33ny · Joined: 10 Aug 2006

These are 4-5 different classes for 50 minutes each day. It will be the same students everyday.

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

moptop · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Location: Gangwondo

yes, i bought them in seoul. i went to the express bus terminal in Gangnam and bought the "Talk your head off" at the Youngpoong Bookstore. i don't remember if they sell the others there, but you could check their website: www.ypbooks.co.kr . i would probably try the Kyobo Bookstore for all the rest. you also might be able to order them from What the Book in Itaewon. I got the "Can you believe it?" one used for 5,000 won there!