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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: Lesson plans for Korean freshmen courses |
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I'm not sure where this should be posted in fact. What we need amongst the Korean Job Discussion Forums is a Forum specifically for English teaching ideas, materials and resources. What I'm about to post here is not really suited to "general discussion" but is also not really suited to the forum for asking about job hours, contracts and so on.
I think there is a 'lesson plans' section somewhere in DavesESLcafe already, but I decided I put my stuff up here as it might be useful for other university and high school teachers in Korea.
Feel free to copy this stuff, add your own, or make suggestions on how we can improve our materials.
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Adverbs of Frequency
Some common adverbs of frequency:
always, almost always, usually, often, sometimes, almost never, never
1. Look at the following list and decide how often you do these activities.
e.g., �I never go to nightclubs in the weekend.�
2. Guess how often your partner does these activities.(DON�T ASK HIM/HER)
e.g., �Minsoo almost always goes to nightclubs in the weekend�.
3. Compare your answers.
Su-Hee: �Chul-su, I think you often go to the library because you are a very good student.�
Chul-su: �No, I almost never go to the library because I don�t like studying. I guess you sometimes go to the library because you are a university student.�
Su-Hee: �Actually, I never go to the library because I always study at home.�
You Partner
______________ ______________ go/goes to nightclubs in the weekend.
______________ ______________ speak/speaks to foreigners outside class.
______________ ______________ go/goes to the library.
______________ ______________ watch/watches the news on television.
______________ ______________ smoke/smokes.
______________ ______________ get/gets drunk with your/his/her friends
______________ ______________ go/goes hiking.
______________ ______________ borrow/borrows money from friends.
______________ ______________ give/gives money to beggars (거지)
______________ ______________ eat/eats bondegi (번데기)
Frequency Phrases
v Duncan rides his bike every day.
v I drink beer two times a week.
v My family goes to Busan twice a year.
v 성희 goes to the swimming pool once every two weeks.
v 철수 watches movies three times a month.
v I meet my friends every weekend.
Talk together in groups about what you do in your free time, using frequency phrases. Give more detail using �because� or �so�
�I do a part time job every Saturday because I want to buy a laptop�
�I visit my cousin only once a year, so I don�t know him well�
�My father goes to New Zealand about five times a year, because he owns a company there�
Have you ever�.
� eaten bondegi?
� given money to a beggar?
�spoken to a foreigner outside of class?
� gone to a night club?
� been to another country?
� stolen something?
� seen a Japanese movie?
� overslept and missed class? |
This, as you can see is for teaching adverbs of frequency and frequency phrases, with a few "have you ever"s at the bottom of the page just to fill it out a bit (probably the have you ever section should be done first, as a warm up before going into the guessing frequency exercise.
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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This one is for modal verbs. I'm afraid the layout is a bit messed up after pasting it here. In the original document for example I had listed the range of modal verbs in an arc with arrows between them. Still, I'm sure anyone who finds these lesson plans useful will invariably end-up changing the layout and and contents a bit anyway.
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Modal Verbs
must must not
have to can�t
should / ought to shouldn�t
can don�t have to
Talking Time
Talk together in small groups.
Talk about the following situations. Advise the other students about what they should do, must do, have to do, don�t have to do, can do, can�t do, shouldn�t do and mustn�t do.
Example: If you go to New Zealand you should take a camera. You must declare (신고하다) any fruit at the airport customs desk. In summer you have to reserve a hotel room. You can have a picnic on a beach but you don�t have to go swimming. You mustn�t take a gun on the plane. If you are older than 18 you can drink some wine or beer, but you mustn�t drive a car afterwards. You shouldn�t tip the waiter in a restaurant
At a friend�s wedding (as a guest(손님)).
Taking an international plane trip.
In an English class.
To protect the environment.
At a funeral (장례식).
In an exclusive (독특한) nightclub. |
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NicRenee
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The place for this is Idea Cookbook. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Great idea for a thread, but I couldn't make it past, '...in the weekend.' Proof before you copy, my friend.
Hope this continues, though. Good idea. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Nic Renee. Thanks for the Idea Cookbook suggestion. The problem with that section though is that though it has lots of good materials, it's very haphazard and covers a huge range of ages of ages and levels. It would be nice to exchange some materials that have been specifically put together for Korean university students.
PRagic. I can't prove it, but I have the feeling kiwis tend to say 'in the weekend' rather than on. Or maybe it's just a duncan-ism that I should try to do away with.  |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| point taken... |
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semphoon
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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In the UK we say, "at the weekend," but I believe north americans say "on the weekend." Right?
Thanks for the lessons. I will put some of mine up. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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No, you might be right. Every Canadian, British or American English speaker I've spoken with has said "on the weekend" (or even at the weekend for Brits), but I can't remember if kiwis say 'in' or 'on'.
And after looking more closely at the other posts on the Job-related discussion forum, I think the mods were right to move this one.
Anyway, here's another lesson for the freshmen. Once again the layout is all wonky, but you'll get the basic points. I often get the students to very quickly draw time lines on the hand out to show that they can grasp the difference between 10 minutes from now and ten minutes later.
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ago, before, from now, later/after
� �ago� is only used when relating one time in the past to the present (현재). I was born 20 years ago.
� �from now� is only used when relating one time in the future to the present (현재). We can also simply use �in�. For example, we can say �five minutes from now� or �in five minutes�. �in� is often a more natural sounding expression (�in�은더 자연스러운 표현이에요)
� �before� is only used when relating an earlier time to a time in the past(과거) or future (미래)
� �after� is only used when relating a later time to a time in the past (과거) or future (미래).
� �earlier� = �before�. �later� = �after�.
I started my job one year ago. I finished university six months before that. I will quit my job two years from now (in 2 years). One year after (that) I will go to Britain.
I came to class about one hour ago. Fifteen minutes before coming to class I was drinking a nice hot cup of coffee. 30 minutes from now (in 30 minutes) I will go home again and ten minutes after that I will be asleep.
희숙 came to class one hour ago. She had left her house two hours before. Therefore 희숙 left her house three hours ago.
Two hours from now I will eat dinner. An hour after I will go to bed. Therefore I will go to bed three hours from now.
Discussion Questions
① When will you get married? When will you have your first child?
② When did you get married? When did you have your first child?
③ When did you arrive at the school this evening? When did you leave your house or workplace?
④ Have you been to another country? When did you go? When did you return to Korea?
⑤ When was the last time you stayed in a hotel? When did you make reservations? When did you leave?
⑥ When was the last time you drank too much alcohol? Did you throw-up (토하다) later? When did you throw-up?
⑦ When will you go on your next vacation? When will you return to Yeosu?
⑧ When did you last go to Seoul? When did you return to Yeosu?
⑨ What do you think you will be doing 6 months from now? What do you think you will be doing 6 months after you graduate? |
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fancypants
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using a grammar book or are you pulling all of this stuff out of your head? Crimey, if the latter, God help you, you are not only going to drive yourself nuts (if you know what's good for you, leave it to the linguists), but will also leave out a lot of important stuff that, believe me, your students already know a lot about, most likely more than you.
How on earth can one expect to teach the veritable insanely huge quagmire that is "modal verbs" in one fell swoop? What about the related applications? Are they "modals for regret" - should/might/could + have + past participle? Or "modals for ability" - modal + present simple? Or prediction? Possibility? Deduction? Probability? What about conditionals?
The Koreans I have taught are about 2 smug credits away from a doctoral degree in English grammar theory, but they are absolutely hopeless at accessing this imprisoned erudition in speaking/writing/listening. Give them a multiple choice test, though, and they will beat the pants off of anyone, me included sometimes.
I would suggest getting a good grammar book, learn the grammar points you need to teach before class, and use them to make your lesson plans.
Betty Azar won't excite anyone, but she was my grammar teaching saviour:
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/
Michael Swan has been a frequent saviour of mine too:
http://www.amazon.com/How-English-Works-Grammar-Practice/dp/0194314561
With all due respect, if I delivered that modal verb lesson plan to my grammar-theory top heavy Korean students, they would eat me alive in the first 5 minutes.
By the way, is that kitten for real? |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| fancypants wrote: |
Are you using a grammar book or are you pulling all of this stuff out of your head? Crimey, if the latter, God help you, you are not only going to drive yourself nuts (if you know what's good for you, leave it to the linguists), but will also leave out a lot of important stuff that, believe me, your students already know a lot about, most likely more than you.
How on earth can one expect to teach the veritable insanely huge quagmire that is "modal verbs" in one fell swoop? What about the related applications? Are they "modals for regret" - should/might/could + have + past participle? Or "modals for ability" - modal + present simple? Or prediction? Possibility? Deduction? Probability? What about conditionals?
The Koreans I have taught are about 2 smug credits away from a doctoral degree in English grammar theory, but they are absolutely hopeless at accessing this imprisoned erudition in speaking/writing/listening. Give them a multiple choice test, though, and they will beat the pants off of anyone, me included sometimes.
I would suggest getting a good grammar book, learn the grammar points you need to teach before class, and use them to make your lesson plans.
Betty Azar won't excite anyone, but she was my grammar teaching saviour:
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/
Michael Swan has been a frequent saviour of mine too:
http://www.amazon.com/How-English-Works-Grammar-Practice/dp/0194314561
With all due respect, if I delivered that modal verb lesson plan to my grammar-theory top heavy Korean students, they would eat me alive in the first 5 minutes.
By the way, is that kitten for real? |
Swan's books are good but I'll be honest and say I haven't referred to those kind of grammar books for quite a while. I've spent a fair amount of time studying Korean in the past though and consider a working knowledge of Korean grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure to be infinately more useful than long lessons centred on breaking down sentences into little bits and confusing the students (and myself too) with lots of linguistic jargon.
The modal verbs stuff above just covers the basics. Simple stuff that freshmen student should know but don't (eg, 공책을 가지고 와야 해요 'I have to bring a note book', 'you must not bring your boyfriend to class' 남자친구를 데리고 오면 안 되요 and 'You don't have to give chocolate to the teacher' 선생님에게 초코릿을 주지 않아도 되요). Considering that so many of the freshmen down here in Yeosu are still managing little more than "she's hobby... read a book" there's really no need to introduce sentences like "If I had known my teaching methodology would be so harshly critiqued I would not have bothered"
It sounds like you're teaching students who are probably quite proficient English speakers and very well versed with English grammar and meta-language. The average freshmen in Korea is far from this.
I found the kitten on the internet. Photoshop I guess. |
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fancypants
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I teach modals "can" and "could" for ability to high beginner students.
I teach "might", "could", and "must" for deduction for low intermediate students plus zero and 1st conditionals
I teach modals + have + pp for past deduction/regret to intermediate students plus 2nd conditionals.
For interrmediate/upper intermediate, I teach real/unreal/mixed conditionals plus 3rd conditionals.
But all are taught in terms of practical applications: ability, deduction, prediction, possibility, etc.
Do you think the kitten's real? It's so tiny!
Pronunciation/listening skills are important at all levels, especially with the modal +pp:
woodenev, coodenev, shoodenev +pp, etc. |
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| MODS - please make this some sort of sticky or create a new section in the Idea Cookbook for university lessons! |
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Location: left Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: . |
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...try doing a well planned and very worthwhile, TEFL course
100 hours (on line) or 120-hours KEI - TEFL
I would really recommend the course or training |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: . |
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| maingman wrote: |
...try doing a well planned and very worthwhile, TEFL course
100 hours (on line) or 120-hours KEI - TEFL
I would really recommend the course or training |
One month intensive CELTA at Regent Language School, Oxford. 7 years teaching experience in New Zealand, the UK and Korea.
(OK, admittedly it sounds a bit wankwank to mention that it was in Oxford, but Regent's CELTA programme was considered to be one of the best - and Korean employers just lap it up  ) |
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fancypants
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Re: . |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| maingman wrote: |
...try doing a well planned and very worthwhile, TEFL course
100 hours (on line) or 120-hours KEI - TEFL
I would really recommend the course or training |
One month intensive CELTA at Regent Language School, Oxford. 7 years teaching experience in New Zealand, the UK and Korea.
(OK, admittedly it sounds a bit wankwank to mention that it was in Oxford, but Regent's CELTA programme was considered to be one of the best - and Korean employers just lap it up ) |
Oh. Honestly, I really thought that by the manner in which you organized your lesson plans and what I took to be a need for peer validation evidenced by your posting rather, well to be blunt, unexciting and uninspired ideas that you were totally new to teaching ESL and were looking for feedback/validation.
Sorry. |
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