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Redcap
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MacLean:
Look on the bright side. At least you now have an excuse to organize a field trip to the Bushmills distillery. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| derp derp derp derp, sit-you-ay-shon...lesson over |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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I was obvoiusly alluding to the English invasion of Ireland.
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Would that be the Norman (or French) one in the 12th century? |
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MacLean
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Here's my problem. In the process of teaching N. Ireland English I'm afraid the kids might pick up on aspects of Northern Irish culture. I can just see the kids at the end of the year having a conversation with their teacher along the following lines:
MacLean: Jiho, please make sure you do your homework tonight.
Jiho: Who are you to tell me what I should do. Are you my Da?
MacLean: No, Jiho, your father is still incarcerated. But I am your teacher, and I expect to see your homework completed tomorrow.
Jiho: Excuse me, but I alone will determine what I ought to do. I will not be pressured by you, or the government, into doing something that is not in my interest.
MacLean: Jiho, if your homework is not completed tomorrow the school will be forced to take disciplinary action.
Jiho: Are ya daft? I�ll take disciplinary action against your car. That�s your blue Hyundai out front, isn�t it?
Maclean: Are you threatening me Jiho?
Jiho: Not at all.
Maclean: Glad to hear that. Now, Jiho will you be doing your homework tonight?
Jiho: Where do you live? That�s you on Sejong Drive isn�t it?
MacLean: I�m afraid I�m going to have to�
Jiho: You�re afraid? What are you afraid of?
MacLean: Are you going to do your homework?
Jiho: No.
MacLean: Why not?
Jiho: Because you�re going to do it. I�ll expect it by 8am tomorrow.
MacLean: Thank you Jiho. See you then.
Jiho: See ya.
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West Coast Tatterdemalion
Joined: 31 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Now this one is hilarious. Like they have any idea what "Northern Ireland" English is. Funny stuff. Only in Korea. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Even the Japanese people understand the Northern Ireland situation. It's kinda shameful to live in Korea. |
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tanklor1
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| MacLean wrote: |
Here's my problem. In the process of teaching N. Ireland English I'm afraid the kids might pick up on aspects of Northern Irish culture. I can just see the kids at the end of the year having a conversation with their teacher along the following lines:
MacLean: Jiho, please make sure you do your homework tonight.
Jiho: Who are you to tell me what I should do. Are you my Da?
MacLean: No, Jiho, your father is still incarcerated. But I am your teacher, and I expect to see your homework completed tomorrow.
Jiho: Excuse me, but I alone will determine what I ought to do. I will not be pressured by you, or the government, into doing something that is not in my interest.
MacLean: Jiho, if your homework is not completed tomorrow the school will be forced to take disciplinary action.
Jiho: Are ya daft? I�ll take disciplinary action against your car. That�s your blue Hyundai out front, isn�t it?
Maclean: Are you threatening me Jiho?
Jiho: Not at all.
Maclean: Glad to hear that. Now, Jiho will you be doing your homework tonight?
Jiho: Where do you live? That�s you on Sejong Drive isn�t it?
MacLean: I�m afraid I�m going to have to�
Jiho: You�re afraid? What are you afraid of?
MacLean: Are you going to do your homework?
Jiho: No.
MacLean: Why not?
Jiho: Because you�re going to do it. I�ll expect it by 8am tomorrow.
MacLean: Thank you Jiho. See you then.
Jiho: See ya.
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itistime
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Give them what they want.
There was a kid in EPIK orientation some months back.
Everytime he spoke. There were blank stares from the instructor, Aussies, Brits, 'Merikins, SAfs - everybody. I just wondered how his students in middle school retained anything he said.
Granted, I have met quite a few Irish folks with very clear speech. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:31 am Post subject: Re: School wants me to teach 'Northern Ireland' English! |
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I�m from Northern Ireland, so my school has asked me to teach Northern Ireland English alongside N. American English. At first I thought they must be joking, but they�re serious. I tried to dissuade them. As anyone who has met a N. Ireland person will know, the accent takes some getting used to. And there are less than two million of us on the planet. It�s not as if the kids will running into people from Londonderry/ Derry or Lurgan at the local Lotteria. Alas, they�re determined. Anyway, I�ve been looking for some material on the web. So far this is all I�ve found. If anyone can recommend anything else I�d be grateful. (Dead on I would.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as |
Have your students paint a big mural on the side of the hogwan depicting hooded guys with automatic weapons and Union Jacks...
Have your students go hunt down some Catholics and beat them up... |
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MacLean
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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I've taught two classes about Northern Ireland, and already it's having undesirable results. My grade three students won't let the grade two students walk down their hallway. Apparently several years ago one grade two student made a disparaging remark about third grade students while walking along the second floor. Now everytime a second grader tries to walk their hallway, they all lie down to block their path. Some even throw pencils and erasers at them from the classroom windows. The second graders are undeterred. They say that before it was the third grade hallway, it had been a 2nd grade hallway for decades - and that it was their traditional route to the bathroom. The school has called in mediators, but (predictably) the two sides have nominated not only the most intransigent class rep, but the one most likely to get up the other sides' nose. I'll keep you updated.
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ZIFA
Joined: 23 Feb 2011
Location: Dici che il fiume..Trova la via al mare
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:25 am Post subject: |
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I doubt they actually meant for you to especially teach NI english....replete with the full accent and all that.
You misunderstood. They mean, just teach normal english. And they'll forgive you the occasional idiom ..because that is where you are from.
Sorry but no kids in your hogwon are about to emigrate to norn irn and order some soda bread. Teaching them how to say "chup botty noh beacin" will not help them in this life.
In any case NI is pretty far from being a hotbed of tolerant cosmopolitain multiculturalism. They barely accept anyone from elsewhere in the UK...let alone a person from the other side of the planet. |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| This would be so much fun I think. I assume your boss spent some time in N. Ireland? Does he/ she understand the spoken dialect? I'd just speak it to everyone in the office. Start today. Have fun. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| we have a winner for troll of the year |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I read once that the Irish speak the most correct English from a linguistic point of view. Also some places in Scotland. That makes sense to me, but teaching the kids with an accent is good for them |
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Mr. Peabody
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
Location: here
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| MacLean wrote: |
I've taught two classes about Northern Ireland, and already it's having undesirable results. My grade three students won't let the grade two students walk down their hallway. Apparently several years ago one grade two student made a disparaging remark about third grade students while walking along the second floor. Now everytime a second grader tries to walk their hallway, they all lie down to block their path. Some even throw pencils and erasers at them from the classroom windows. The second graders are undeterred. They say that before it was the third grade hallway, it had been a 2nd grade hallway for decades - and that it was their traditional route to the bathroom. The school has called in mediators, but (predictably) the two sides have nominated not only the most intransigent class rep, but the one most likely to get up the other sides' nose. Grade two has nominated the oversized kid who regularly beats up his older brother simply because he's in grade three. The third grade students in turn have selected the playground bully - Knuckles O'Kim, he's started calling himself. So far there has been little progress. Rumour has it that Pres. Obama will be phoning both sides on the weekend to encourage them to keep talking.
I'll keep you updated. |
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