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SMOE NSET
Joined: 25 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul
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(9 if you include Jeju)
lol insulting or ignorant...but I love your questions about baseball and food although those are too easy, everyone knows Suwon is famous for galbi because of all the restaurants named after it, but I'll bet most students don't know it's gyeonggi-do's capital city. |
Jeju is a self-governing province so it is included with the others but with an asterisks stating it is self-governing. I didn't mean it as a slight. That is how I have always seen Jeju province labeled and meant it as a trick question.
Maybe I can write the question as, "What are the 8 mainland provinces?"
The Suwon galbi question is actually the most missed question when I do the quiz (6th grade). The baseball question just allows the boys to be involved more, especially with the low-English-ability boys.
More baseball questions:
Who hit a home run in 9 consecutive games to set a world record? Lee Dae Ho
Who holds the Asian home run record? Lee Seung-Yeop
What state does Choo Shin Soo's team play in? Ohio (they will know the city)
What team does Lee Dae Ho play for? Orix Buffaloes
Who was the first South Korean-born player to play in the MLB? Park Chan Ho
What MLB team did Park Chan Ho play for first? L.A. Dodgers
Pop Questions:
Name all of the members of Girls Generation. (Taeyeon, Jessica Jung, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Seohyun)
Name all of the members of 2NE1. (CL, Minzy, Dara, and Bom)
Name all of the cast on Infinite Challenge (무한도전). (Yoo Jae-seok, Park Myeong-su, Jeong Jun-ha, Jeong Hyeong-don, Noh, Hyeong-cheol, Ha-ha, and Gil)
Name all of the members of (insert K-pop group or TV show)
Which sport is Kang Ho-dong famous for doing? Ssireum
Well no more Googling for me, my Kindle beckons[/quote] |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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thats great! ill be an expert on korean culture myself now too. back to googling... 
btw, im not sure the question about suwon is too easy, go. people seem to know more about their own areas/provinces than about korea in general ive found thats why i didnt put too many seoul questions in ( were down south). |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:55 am Post subject: |
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One question that you've got to add because most students don't know the answer:
What's the official name of South Korea?
Now WE all know that it's "Republic of Korea" but I got some amazing answers (from uni students!) on their mid-term. I got North Korea, Korea, Republican Korea (geez, I hope not!), Daehamingook and a bunch of other weird ones! |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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ㅅㅅIf people don't know something is famous, then it isn't famous.
e.g. Elton John is famous, Korean singers aren't. |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:02 am Post subject: |
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haha yeah. well fame is relative like most things...
btw, do you have anything to contibute to this thread please? id really appreciate more quiz questions. |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| I just don�t understand why your questions are all Korea centric. Kids get this information stuffed inside of them from all kinds of sources so why don�t you open their minds about the world out there? |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| i have an objective and that is to create a quiz about korea for my students. i already have a general trivia quiz thanks. i thought this was a korean job related forum so it was an appropriate place to gather information? my job as an english teacher is to teach english. i didnt come to korea to preach about the outside world, my personal habits or religious beliefs. thats obviously your job. why dont you just contribute instead of moaning? |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| my job as an english teacher is to teach english. i didnt come to korea to preach about the outside world, my personal habits or religious beliefs. thats obviously your job. why dont you just contribute instead of moaning? |
Nothing wrong with giving the kids questions about their own country but there's nothing wrong with trying to teach them about the outside world either. With language learning context is very important and often the cultural background helps with the context, which helps students understand meaning better. e.g while teaching food vocabulary you'd probably also want to teach words like starter, main course, dessert etc..so you'd have to teach the kids the fact that in western culture we usually divide meals into three courses instead of putting it all on the table at the same time and so on.
Re your personal habits this is a very good way to raise interest in a subject. Telling the the kids about what you do, with photos etc...would probably get their attention much better than the seemingly obligatory pictures of K pop
stars a lot of teachers seem to overuse.
Re your religious beliefs, I agree. Probably better to keep them to yourself. |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| le-paul wrote: |
| i have an objective and that is to create a quiz about korea for my students. i already have a general trivia quiz thanks. i thought this was a korean job related forum so it was an appropriate place to gather information? my job as an english teacher is to teach english. i didnt come to korea to preach about the outside world, my personal habits or religious beliefs. thats obviously your job. why dont you just contribute instead of moaning? |
Anything non-Korean is prohibited in the English class? Wait, no one ever told me that.
Sure than just keep it local. I suggest you teach your kids how to make kimchi and you could even wear a hanbok during the exercise. After all you are an English teacher in Korea so why on earth would you let your students hear about anything outside of the borders. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| A lot of teachers get confused when they come over here as, on the one hand they're bombarded with people telling them how they have to understand and respect Korean culture and learn the language, while on the other hand they're supposed to behave like archetypal FOTB foreigners in the class room. Ironically the class room is probably the best place for foreigners to learn all about Korean culture and language as they're faced with a bunch of kids who'd like nothing better than to spout off about K pop and gag concert in Korean, while outside the class room they often have to fend off drunk Korean adults who want to practise their English. Basically principals want teachers to wear the hanbok, eat kimchi and speak Korean in the staffroom then go into class with the cowboy hat, the PPt presentation on Thanksgiving customs and the inability to say anything other than 'An yeong Hah Se Yo' |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 3:41 am Post subject: |
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I am not getting drawn into this.
look, i think its great that you both have opinions and stuff, I really do. But if you want to shoot the breeze about what you think, please can you start your own thread? we can talk about all this on there if you think its important (or relevant).
Apart from deviating away from my purpose (which is to get some info to make a quiz about korea for my students), youre also now encouraging others to do what they do best on daves and turn it into a 25 page long list of shregi that has nothing to do with the original post. So Im asking you both politley, please stay off my thread unless you want to add to the quiz. Thankyou.  |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 4:31 am Post subject: |
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A real stumper-
What is Ban Ki Moon's job title? |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:13 am Post subject: |
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I am not getting drawn into this.
look, i think its great that you both have opinions and stuff, I really do. But if you want to shoot the breeze about what you think, please can you start your own thread? we can talk about all this on there if you think its important (or relevant).
Apart from deviating away from my purpose (which is to get some info to make a quiz about korea for my students), youre also now encouraging others to do what they do best on daves and turn it into a 25 page long list of shregi that has nothing to do with the original post. So Im asking you both politley, please stay off my thread unless you want to add to the quiz. Thankyou. |
If you don't want people to get distracted from the important job of providing you with quiz questions you could quite easily find on Google in a few minutes, don't post inflamatory comments about what cultural topics people should or shouldn't cover in the class room. It's quite simple. |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| is it secretary general of the UN? thats quite difficult! be interesting to see how many students know that thanks |
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