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[jay-shi]

Hi everyone,

Love the series, hate it or find it very very so-so? My friend is writing a research paper for his TESOL MA about the Gogo series, its pros and cons and how it is generally used by ESL teachers. He would really appreciate your input.

So if you do teach any of the Gogo books please take 2 minutes to fill out a short survey, it's an excel spreadsheet, very easy to fill out and it can be downloaded here: http://esltool.com/gogo/Gogo_Loves_English_Questionnaire.xls

Once you fill it out please send the survey to: [email protected]

Feel free to have as many of your coworkers fill it out. Part of his research focuses on the differences in usage between native speakers and korean teachers, so Korean teachers are more than welcome to fill it out too.

Thanks in advance.

[EFLtrainer]

[pet lover]

First, I would never agree to teach at a school that uses that series. Second, if a school where I worked suddenly changed and started using that series, I'm not sure if I'd manage to do a midnight run before doing myself in because that is simply the worst series ever. Ever.

[animalbirdfish]

Agreed. Terrible books. The music sections were awful: loud, banging beats that drown out the words.

I taught the book once when I started at a school before they stopped using it. Whew.

[trigger123]

loved it. a good teacher can make a lesson out of a pile of anything.
i'll help your mate out with the questionnaire

[guangho]

Crap. Absolute crap.

Edit: Yes, a good teacher can make a good lesson from just about anything but decent materials go a long way.

[pet lover]

Yes, that is true. A good teacher can make a lesson out of anything. But, is that "good" teacher likely to think Gogo Pukes English is the best possible textbook for his/her students??

[Wrench]

[SeoulMan6]

I must say I'm a Gogo lover too. Two questions for the Gogo haters:

1) Why specifically do you hate Gogo? (just curious)

2) What textbook do you use and what's your opinion of it?

[guangho]

I hated Gogo because it was the most infantile, asinine thing I ever had to teach and it's all just so....forced. It was like a bunch of ajoshis sat around in Marketing saying stuff like "Say Kim, what do you reckon is hip for the youngins these days?" "Why a red dinosaur would be splendid and quite "with it", Mr. Lee."

English Time is at least grounded in reality. It contains information the kids may actually use someday and presented in a manner that does not drive me into homicidal rages.

[Kenny Kimchee]

Go Go may love English but Kenny hates Go Go!

[margaret]

We use Gogo among others. I agree it's not as good as either English Time or Let's Go. Those 2 do seem to have to most realistic and usable dialogs. But the little kids like the Gogo books and they are actually learning to speak English from them. I like them better than the Super Kids, which to me has more irrelevant dialogs, or the Backpack, which doesn't seem to have much substance at all.
Margaret

[pet lover]

[margaret]

I forgot to mention another good thing about the Gogo books--the writing books--the kids actually love them and want to do the excercises. Jay-shi I pm'd you about the survey.
Margaret

[EFLtrainer]