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typo · Joined: 16 Jun 2009

I don't quite understand the system here. The students just finished their finals, and now we have a week and a half of....nothing? Seriously, what's the point of going to school if you're not studying for any test? Why don't they push their exams a week later?

Anyway, does anyone have good lesson ideas for this last week? I can't imagine the students are going to be anything near productive (as if they were before, when they had tests), so of course it's gonna have to be fun/activity related.

My classes are high school girls. Thanks

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Three words: High School Musical.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

halfmanhalfbiscuit · Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Location: Seoul

Supplement with worksheets if it's a short movie.

typo · Joined: 16 Jun 2009

Really? You watch movies? Your coteachers are cool with that?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

waseige1 · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

I am playing pictionary this week.

I have the students fill out a sheet with 2 nouns, 2 adjectives, 2 verbs to get the word lists.

nate2008 · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Location: Daegu

meursault · Joined: 19 Dec 2008

I've been playing Taboo, Jeopardy, and Heads Up Seven Up.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

We're making comics. AKA I'm getting a little bit of time to really talk to to each of the 45 members of each of my 36 classes. I'm not making anyone do anything they don't want to this week.

Ironically, they're so exhausted from exams that they just come in, sit down and quietly stare at the front of the room. For once.

gregoriomills · Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Location: Busan, Korea

For my behaved classes that have done well all semester, I have no problem just turning on a movie and lettign it roll. For my rowdier classes, I found they do much better if I type up some questions and pass them out before the movie, going over them during or after the movie. Acting like it's an actual "lesson" (even if it's just a "movie lesson") gives the class less of a "blow off" feel.

typo · Joined: 16 Jun 2009

Thanks for the info. I would kind of feel like a slacker regarding the movie, so pictionary it is. Anyway, what movies do you find approrpriate? And don't they have to have korean subtitles? Where do you download/find those?

Bob_Salad · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Location: Same Shoes, Different Hat.

Mr. Bean is paying a visit to my MS. Borat will be high-fiving at my HS.

newinseoul · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Location: Busan

I teach elementary, but I'm playing Golden Bell.

You can make questions about things that they learned during the year. You can also make fun questions up.

I have mini whiteboards at my school, so each student gets one. I divided the class up into small groups. For everyone that gets a right answer (I give them 30 seconds to write the answer), their team gets 1 point per right answer. If they write sentence as opposed to a one word answer, they get extra points. The kids seem to like it. I also see what students actually learned anything during the year.

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

Our Principal is prowling around, making sure we aren't playing movies. Apparently she is going to punish the class if she catches the teacher playing a movie.