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[CBP]

Hello,

I've read through various threads, but haven't yet pinpointed information on how ESL teachers in Korea like to start and end their classes. Do you follow a general routine when you begin class? How do you assume control as the teacher and draw your students into each day's lesson? Are there things you do that your students have come to expect from you every time they're in your classroom?

Things like that.

Cheers,

CBP

[some waygug-in]

I usually start by doing the songs from the book....usually 5 or 6 minutes.

When things go well, the kids get into the routine and memorize all the songs and actions in the book.

It can get boring if I do it too much, so I don't do it everyday.

Then I try to do a page or 2 from the book, followed by a worksheet that may or may not have anything to do with what is in the book.

The way classes are scheduled, I never know exactly where the next class will be, so I can't really plan for a specific page/topic.

Sometimes I try to focus on the same vocabulary or subject matter, but sometimes it's nice to do something completely different. The kids need a lot of review........usually a lot more than is offered in the standard coursebook or hagwan curriculum, so I try to review things that they should know (but they usually don't). Also, new students tend to get thrown in at any time, so they need a bit of review to get up to speed with the rest of the group.

The last 15 minutes or so I leave for a game of some sort....if the students have been reasonable. If the students have been really loud or obnoxious, I usually don't give them game time.

Not the best, I know....but it's the best I can do with the restrictions that are placed on me.

Cheers

[Yu_Bum_suk]

It all depends on what type of school your working at. As a secondary school teacher it's pretty hard for me to know what to suggest if you're going to be teaching kindergarten.

[John Henry]

I start and end my class with beatings.

[thu_tinh]

[CBP]

I'm working at a hogwan, teaching elementary through middle school and a few high school students. But where you work and which level you teach doesn't matter to me. Your responses will give me something that I can think about and possibly adapt into my own lessons at some point.

Thanks!

[hyperlatina]

I start all my classes with a conversation topic - I found that it helps to loosen up the kids that normally won't talk in class.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[CBP]

I think that's an excellent idea of having the kids stand and honor you as their teacher before each class. Followed by a teacher-led conversation warmup, that'd make for a nice start to each class.

Cheers!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[CBP]

I don't understand what a class prefect is.

Anyway, I want my students to have a good time, but I'm not going to bribe them into liking me by giving them gifts. So I do appreciate a more formal approach to discipline and teaching them to respect me.

Enjoying the input here.

[ilovebdt]

My class goes like this:

I greet the students and they greet me.

I explain what we are going to do in class today.

Warm up introductory exercise to get the kids thinking about the topic.
Questions, picture match, brainstorming

Development activity: Listening or Speaking exercise related to the topic
Ss learn new vocabulary, phrases etc

Production: Students prepare their own role plays, presentation, etc

To end the lesson, I comment on their work: Good job, excellent etc. depending on how the class went, and then I ask them to put their chairs in and I let them go.

ilovebdt

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Boodleheimer]

oh, i make my students memorize and recite things. i beat them. i make them translate things into Korean so they can grasp them better. and i hardly use any English at all.

--no, wait, replace "i" with "Korean teachers"

[CBP]