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[Kaypea]

Hi,

I'm going to teach 9 45-minute classes during the summer holiday to a nice group of about 10 or so motivated middle school students (yay!)

I've just been told today that I'm going to be preparing them for the listening and speaking sections of the new 수능 test, which may or may not come out within the next couple of years.

They're going to give me some books to peek at, and I think there will be CD's with listening tracks, but I thougt I'd drop in here and see if anybody's been doing this yet. Do you have any warnings, or suggestions

Thanks,

kp

[Hotpants]

Is that the new NEAT test that you are talking about? There are a lot of NEAT textbooks on the market already, and I think it's imporatant that you choose the one you want to use rather than the school.

The NEAT is yet another boring, score-stakes test. Yawn.You are probably expected to teach exam strategies, although I think this is the wrong way to use a native speaker. Perhaps you can use up a good portion of the time doing a practice test in each class, then extracting some key vocab and expressions from that test, around which to build some fun games. Get your students to keep some sort of personalized learning/self-reflection journal in the process. Also keep track of all students scores for all mock tests and make sure that they can see an increase in their test score number.

[Kaypea]

Ok, awesome~ That's a great approach, Hotpants ^^

The school thinks it *is* utilizing me as a native teacher, oddly enough, by getting me to hit the button on the CD player to lead them through the listenting section, heheh. I have no idea why they think the native speaker should teach "listening", because that's basically what listening class is. Actually, I think nobody should teach "listening"... students should do it at home, or in a language lab.

The school has some really generic NEAT test prep books, so I think I'll look for something I can make my own...

Thanks!!

-KP