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ABC KID
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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: What Are These? They're Dave's Posters! Please Help Me |
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I'd like to think that I make a pretty good job of most of my teaching here in Korea. However, there is one topic that I always finish the lesson thinking that I could have done a lot better there, that the students did not totally grasp it and did not particularly enjoy the lesson either...
That topic is:
What are these? They're ______
What are those? They're ______
I try using classroom objects as visual aids and also pictures on the whiteboard but the students just seem to struggle with it. I have no problems whatsoever with 'What's this?' and 'What's that?'. Nor do I have any problems with getting students to understand the concept of plurals (e.g. cat vs cats, pencil vs pencils). However 'What are these?' and 'What are those?' is a different matter entirely.
How do other people teach these? Does anyone have any golden tips? |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: Re: What Are These? They're Dave's Posters! Please Help Me |
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| ABC KID wrote: |
I'd like to think that I make a pretty good job of most of my teaching here in Korea. However, there is one topic that I always finish the lesson thinking that I could have done a lot better there, that the students did not totally grasp it and did not particularly enjoy the lesson either...
That topic is:
What are these? They're ______
What are those? They're ______
I try using classroom objects as visual aids and also pictures on the whiteboard but the students just seem to struggle with it. I have no problems whatsoever with 'What's this?' and 'What's that?'. Nor do I have any problems with getting students to understand the concept of plurals (e.g. cat vs cats, pencil vs pencils). However 'What are these?' and 'What are those?' is a different matter entirely.
How do other people teach these? Does anyone have any golden tips? |
Try the Korean.
Or do it with objects in your hands and the kids hands. These are the ones in your hands, those are not. Have the kids ask the questions as well.
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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Without typing in Korean (and please bear in mind, I learned Korean from a cereal box)...
Ee-go or yo-go is this thing.
Cho-go or ku-go is that thing over there.
It has to do with distance from the speaker (this/these being close and that/those farther away.) |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Koreans understand demonstrative pronouns in three ways: ego (near the speaker), yogiyo (nearer the person they're addressing or off in the distance) and chogiyo (somewhere between the speaker and the person they're addressing). I find it easiest just to draw stick men on the board with dots in various places and explain that 'here' means near the speaker and 'there' pretty well everywhere else. |
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