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[expat2001]

Within the next few days ,I will start teaching at a kinder garden hogwon. This isnt your average kindy hogwon. It has different themes for different rooms. For example , we have an airplane room ,a bus room ,a bank room,etc. Its very similar to an English Village .

Does anyone have any ideas on how I'd teach in this type of environment?

[Juregen]

These classes are extremely standardized. They will tell you exactly what to do and how to do it.

[moosehead]

is that the english town in gwacheon?

ha ha the german guy picked me up in a car at the station for an interview; I opened the door to get in and was hit by a cloud of pot smoke

enjoy the after hours time

[TheUrbanMyth]

I think Mr. Juregen may be correct here...and something you said, twigged my memory.

By any chance would that hakwon be part of a chain whose name begins with a "W" and ends in a "d"?

[expat2001]

[expat2001]

[expat2001]

[detourne_me]

[Goku]

I had one of those things for a winter camp.

JESUS!

The students don't listen rather they want to play with all the toys that are adorned there. They aren't concenred about what the English name of those things are you.

They are still children of course.

If I were in that situation. I'd do stories. Reading stories, having them do stories... that kind of thing.

What I did do that was major fail was trying to teach them through point and repeat. They didn't like that and it held no interest for them.

Of course they obeyed becuase I was scary, but they wouldn't have learned otherwise.

[expat2001]

[Fishead soup]

Put on a set of Mickey Mouse Ears
Remove learning from the target Classroom
Games
Stickers
Candy
Don't forget to Smile.
At lunch time don't forget to say
" The Kimchi is Hot"
Then they will say
But We like it that way.
Then say, " How kind you are"

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

[expat2001]

[Fishead soup]

May I see your passpost Boarding pass please.
Seat number. Lots of stuff like this on Bogglesworld

[Katchafire]

I used to work at a Wonderland where the rooms were decorated like this also. Are you sure your every day lessons are based entirely around these classroom themes?
If I remember rightly, at W'land we had a booklet based on each theme that we had to use once a term, like a room theme day.

If you DO actually have to spend all day every day teaching to the theme of your room (I can't even begin to imagine how this could be expected), and seeing as they are kindergarten kids ... then some ideas could be:

Basic vocabulary - Airport, bus, plane, girl, boy, man, woman, seat, ticket, money, seatbelt, window, etc etc.

Basic phrases - Where is the girl? She is behind the plane, on the plane, beside the bus, under the bus (errr perhaps not this one).

Where are you going? I'm going to Japan, America, England, Seoul, the zoo, the beach etc.

Songs - Wheels on the Bus, In my Plane (it's too high to sing without surgery, so you'd have to adjust it to suit)http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-numbers.htm



Best of luck to you!

G