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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| I'm making FLUBBER from 300-330 today...wasn't told of the white t shirt and jeans...guess they will have to settle for a red monkey shirt and green army pants... |
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Sody
Joined: 14 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't go, nor was I asked to. No mention of it was even made. However, today the grade 2 English teacher asked me if I would be willing to go with her grade 2 and grade 1 class to visit the English village for a class trip. I told her "I'm not sure, it depends how busy I am." She asked because she thinks the students would have more fun if I did go along. Anyhow, my main point is that it is optional and it sounds like a lot of fun.
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Sody wrote: |
I didn't go, nor was I asked to. No mention of it was even made. However, today the grade 2 English teacher asked me if I would be willing to go with her grade 2 and grade 1 class to visit the English village for a class trip. I told her "I'm not sure, it depends how busy I am." She asked because she thinks the students would have more fun if I did go along. Anyhow, my main point is that it is optional and it sounds like a lot of fun.
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Most elementary schools don't have English for grade 1 and 2, so I am going to guess that you are in a middle school. The English... whatever it is, is just for elementary school. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| I'm making FLUBBER from 300-330 today...wasn't told of the white t shirt and jeans...guess they will have to settle for a red monkey shirt and green army pants... |
Saw U there today.  |
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livinginkorea
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Location: Korea, South of the border
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| So how did it go? I played football with the teachers and my students in my school. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: |
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It was a Korean-type SNAFU (as used in the military sense)
I get there, and I'm told I don't have to sell shirts. Instead I was to help kids with their English phrases. If they couldn't remember what to say I had to teach them. Still better than selling shirts...but kind of pointless, as most kids couldn't remember the two or three basic sentences a minute or two after they left. Still it was nice (even if it totally meant nothing) to get personally thanked by the supervisor of my local Education office who came all the way to Suwon to oversee her 'charges' |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| Sody wrote: |
I didn't go, nor was I asked to. No mention of it was even made. However, today the grade 2 English teacher asked me if I would be willing to go with her grade 2 and grade 1 class to visit the English village for a class trip. I told her "I'm not sure, it depends how busy I am." She asked because she thinks the students would have more fun if I did go along. Anyhow, my main point is that it is optional and it sounds like a lot of fun.
Sody |
Most elementary schools don't have English for grade 1 and 2, so I am going to guess that you are in a middle school. The English... whatever it is, is just for elementary school. |
Mine does, and so do the schools of the other five teachers that I know...but maybe it's a local thing? |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| Sody wrote: |
I didn't go, nor was I asked to. No mention of it was even made. However, today the grade 2 English teacher asked me if I would be willing to go with her grade 2 and grade 1 class to visit the English village for a class trip. I told her "I'm not sure, it depends how busy I am." She asked because she thinks the students would have more fun if I did go along. Anyhow, my main point is that it is optional and it sounds like a lot of fun.
Sody |
Most elementary schools don't have English for grade 1 and 2, so I am going to guess that you are in a middle school. The English... whatever it is, is just for elementary school. |
Mine does, and so do the schools of the other five teachers that I know...but maybe it's a local thing? |
I guess some schools do have the classes, but there is no curriculum for them.
Anyways, I made flubber all day. It was kind of fun the first two times, and then it became a "wow, making flubber again are we" kind of thing. It was fun when my own students came in. My students were having a good time with the one teacher who was going over their pronunciation of 'glue'. All 6 of my kids that were there speak English as their first language, and the guy was trying to work on their pronunication. I was just laughing. It was a good day overall, not too bad. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: |
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I had fun there this afternoon.
Got dressed up.
Passed out stickers and candy.
Saw some nice dances and performances in the auditorium as well as outside.
And I got a thank-you and a handshake from the provincial superintendant of schools. (Ghod, is she old  )
Had a chance to meet and chat with some new foreigners as well.
It might have been a little bit of a SNAFU at the start but all in all it worked out OK. My kids had fun, I had fun and my Korean co-teacher had some fun too. The mothers that came with us on the bus were more than impressed and their only complaint was about the bus driver. That made me smile.
As a field trip it was OK. Getting paid for it was OK too. It beats the 7734 out of sitting in the school all afternoon. It was like a sports day without the sports.
I would do it again if I was asked.
For the record, it was officially the "Gyeonggi Provincial English Festival" or something close to that. |
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Fat Sam
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| It was fun when my own students came in. My students were having a good time with the one teacher who was going over their pronunciation of 'glue'. All 6 of my kids that were there speak English as their first language, and the guy was trying to work on their pronunication. I was just laughing. |
I'm glad you had a laugh. I don't think it was me, but I ran into a similar bunch of almost fluent speakers near the balloon tent. When I spoke to them in simple English, I was met with "Hey, I've lived in Wisconsin for two years."
When you've got a whole school to chose from, why would you only take six students who speak perfect English, to an English festival?
We took twenty seven students. Our only native speaking student didn't come. All of the kids had a fantastic time learning English away from the classroom, the first chance they've had in my two years at the school. I'm sure they'll all come back motivated for the special English classes next week. What benefit did your students gain from their day out? |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| Fat Sam wrote: |
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| It was fun when my own students came in. My students were having a good time with the one teacher who was going over their pronunciation of 'glue'. All 6 of my kids that were there speak English as their first language, and the guy was trying to work on their pronunication. I was just laughing. |
I'm glad you had a laugh. I don't think it was me, but I ran into a similar bunch of almost fluent speakers near the balloon tent. When I spoke to them in simple English, I was met with "Hey, I've lived in Wisconsin for two years."
When you've got a whole school to chose from, why would you only take six students who speak perfect English, to an English festival?
We took twenty seven students. Our only native speaking student didn't come. All of the kids had a fantastic time learning English away from the classroom, the first chance they've had in my two years at the school. I'm sure they'll all come back motivated for the special English classes next week. What benefit did your students gain from their day out? |
We took 21 kids. I would say 20 of them are fluent in English. We took our 'special' English class. From all I know, that is who we were supposed to take.
Well, I don't think it was my students you ran into because none of them lived in Wisconsin.
The part that was funny was that after they clearly spoke perfect English, the guy was still trying to get them to pronounce the words properly. They just kind of gave me a 'WTF?' look as I stood there laughing. The guy that was doing it is an idiot on his own, but I will make a new thread about him (I've been meaning to for about 3 weeks now).
Also, my students had a blast today and didn't want to leave right until 5PM, which was fine with me because I was having a good time talking to their moms, who also all speak fluent English. |
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Fat Sam
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| If it's the same guy I'm thinking about, I'll look forward to that post. |
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