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[TheQueenIsDead]

Not sure if this happens at other schools, but twice a week the students in my school (elementary) watch Arthur or a programme that can help their English ability between 8:40-9:10AM.

Anyway, within the next couple of weeks I'm going to have to take up a slot in the morning. I should do something for 10-15 minutes in front of the school camera that will improve students English skills. I assume this is going to happen for the foreseeable future.

I have absolutely no fking idea what to do.

Any suggestions?

[Chet Wautlands]

Teach a simple song. Have a few words of the day. Show pictures from your country and explain them. This is your fifteen minutes!

Wait... should it be this is your fifteen minutes or THESE are your fifteen minutes? I'm not sure.

[carpetdope]

I did that but it was for a middle school. Still... Get a copy of The Kids Times or something (if ur school has a suscription) and read a simple article and ask a few questions. If there's anybody who can do subtitles for the hard words that'd be kewl. Either that or have a K teacher translate sentence for sentence. Kids can win prizes if they give you the right answers.

[Michelle]

[ChilgokBlackHole]

Puppet show. For the love of GOD one of the things I'm not going to miss is that rhino on EBS who dances around like a retard, also showing up on Arirang to host Superkids.

With the puppet on your hand, you can teach little basic conversations, even adding little voices and such. Maybe name them... Mi and Chin. That would make the kids giggle because michin 미친 means crazy.

Then when you go to class (depending on how you handle it), the kids will be all "We want to talk to Mi and Chin!!!" "Well, okay, but first, we have to drill this vocabulary.

Then they go home and they're like "The foreign teacher is really hard, but we got to talk to Mi and Chin in his class today!!!" "Who are Mi and Chin?" "Puppets!" And mom goes ... ooooohhhh....riiight.

[Kurtz]

I did this for a year, once a week.

Grab hold of that green English book they have in addition to their normal text book. It's full of simple dialogs you can act out with a co-worker. Bringing in props really helps, or make some material.

For example, you can teach how we make make breakfast using verbs like pour, cut, spread, eg, spread butter on the toast (it's great if you can show them actually spreading the toast).

I made a milkshake. That was the best one, I could hear the whole school screaming when I did the taste test.

I showed how they make Indian food, and downloaded pics off the net like a tandoor oven, they found that interesting.

There are always "special days" in Korea like Halloween. That was a good one too. I did "trick or treat". For the trick I used a plastic fist that hit my co-worker in the face, they loved that one.

The idea is to get the school to listen and repeat, and maybe do a quiz at the end. Do mistakes when you do the review as the kids like to see you being silly.

Good luck.

[nomad-ish]

my school has a program similar to this but it's not as long in the morning and it runs, i think, 4 days of the week. i'm not a part of the broadcasting aspect of it, but i wrote the workbook.

basically the students watch clips from a movie and follow along in their workbooks with fill-in-the-blank exercises, defining slang terms, and some puzzles. we don't do this at my school, but i think it'd be really neat to ask the kids a question each time and have them submit their answers in a draw box in the english room. then each time you do the broadcast, you could also do a live draw at the beginning and give the winning kid a prize later in the day.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

[TheQueenIsDead]

Really appreciate the ideas guys, I was at a loose end this morning when I was told this.

My co-teacher is buying some books which I'm gonna have to read to some grade 3 students on the school TV. So I'm thinking I'll read the book for 5-7 minutes, then I'll pick out some sentences/words and get the school to repeat them. Then finally have a little quiz. I'll get the kids to write their answers on a piece of paper and put it in a box in the English room. I'll then pull out a name at the beginning of every Thursday with the winner getting a prize.

This will hopefully take 10-15 minutes.

If it's a disaster I'll try some of the other ideas in here, particularly making food!

Keep the ideas coming if you have any.

Cheers!

[miljeong]

Although I have been called out on here before for being an 'entertainer' more than a 'teacher', when I have absolutely nothing to teach, I will make up a story in front of the whole class using absolutely crazy themes, fast talking, and insanely long character names with lots of tongue twisters.

Example of this would be my last Wednesday class when a teacher didn't show up so I had to combine two classes together of totally different levels of books, but similar levels of comprehension and speaking.

I told them a completely random story I made up off the top of my head. keep in mind I talk quite fast and made it quite funny for them, asking them plenty of comprehension questions in between pauses of the story (gave me time to think and promoted their participation of the story)

For the purpose of documenting it, I'll draw the characters in paintbrush and upload them and tell the story below. The actual story took me 20 minutes and the children in the class were rolling on the floor laughing-- literally ROFL-- but for the purpose of demonstrating, I'll give a 5 minute version below.

(Note: It's important that when you read this story, you read it outloud to yourself and do NOT slow down when reading the character names, in fact, speeding up for that part only makes it more comical.)