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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Wangja wrote: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
*beep*, don't forget the word *beep*.
Actually, we had *beep* in my day, but they have passed on. Ah, nostalgia, nostalgia. |
Edit: ROTFLMFAO! You cannot use the English slang for cigarette !! hahahah !! |
Yes, but you can say fanny with impunity.  |
Strange innit? Some real quim must have worked out the catchwords .... |
Yes, must have been a right berk... |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: Re: Teaching an American-bound Korean about America |
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| wwidgirl wrote: |
She'll probably be surprised by the amount of student participation there is in class. I've been told that in Korean schools, students are just expected to absorb information, not ask questions and such.
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This is really true. I teach at a foreign school and the biggest problem we have with students transferring from Korean school is teaching them how to participate in class.
Prepare her, if you can, to volunteer to answer questions, to work in groups and to answer critical thinking-type questions (rather than just regurgitating sentences she read from the book). |
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plattwaz
Joined: 08 Apr 2005
Location: <Write something dumb here>
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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I know this isn't the advice you're looking for, and there is nothing that can be done about it, but doesn't anyone else find it ...weird? unsettling? abnormal?...that a family has decided to send their daughter, aged 14 (which could really only be 12 as far as we count it) over an ocean, alone, to LIVE WITH A FAMILY THAT THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, in a city that they don't EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF, to go to a school that is a different religion although is yet to be decided exactly which school it is - and that's supposed to be okay?
Does no one else find this a little ...I don't know what word I'm looking for...... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Foreign Exchange Student? |
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beekeeper3000
Joined: 13 Jun 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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yes, it's weird. but it's the same weirdness that makes korean parents blindly believe that a blond canadian female teacher is the best EFL teacher to be found. i have been told that there will be no conflict of interest regarding the religious differences. i'm not sure what catholic school would allow any student the privelege of NOT praying in school. why not send her to a public school with an excellent rating?
anyway, the book i've been asked to teach her is called "weaving it together." it's put out by CNN and has a ton of material to teach. additionally, i've been handed a copy of "chicken soup for the teenage soul" which, to my understanding, was a fairly christian-oriented text.
we'll see.
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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Best to teach this poor sucker some critical survival skills.
1) Puff Puff Pass
2) Showering daily is strongly reccomended
3) Vital importance of why it is bad idea to drive down the Jersy strip screaming Tupac sucks!
4) Never be hater, alway share the product.
5) Expect to get beat up on regular basis for wearing hello kitty products.
6) Expect to get beat up at least once on general principle. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| 5) Expect to get beat up on regular basis for wearing hello kitty products. |
We're talking about a girl here, right? So
5) If you wear Hello Kitty products expect every boy in the vicinity to suddenly need to change underpants. |
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