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[d-rail]

i need some help/guidance. im at a public middle school and im finding that i dont have good material to structure some sort of syllabus. the former korean english teacher transferred to another school so a new one came in. the teacher that is new just graduated college and this is her first job at a school. my school is out in the country so the students level is very low compared to those in larger cities. like i said, my problem is putting some sort of structure to the semester. i have realized that i dont know how to put together units. i can write lesson plans fine but having a new topic/theme daily is too random. i need to be able to break the semester in chunks and focus on a topic for a few weeks at a time but coming up with a few weeks worth of lessons on the same topic is nearly impossible for me. does anyone have any advice for me? i need a syllabus and i dont know how to plan for a semester or entire month at a time.
thank you in advance to anyone that feels ambitious enough to help me out.

[ilovebdt]

How far out are you?
Could you nip into a large city and check out the ESL textbooks at say Kyobo?

[d-rail]

im about an 1:10 se of seoul by bus, so yeah, i can get there. thats not the problem. the school has plenty of text books. the problem is that they suck. completely random. no order to them. random units that dont really make much sense and are not logical

[ilovebdt]

Then, I'd say head into Seoul and check out the ESL textbooks in Kyobo, Bandi and Lunis and Young Poong bookstores.

If you need directions let me know.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

They have text books, don't they? Why not go with the themes in them. Grade 1 will probably be working on things like the present continuous tense, clothing, etc., and you can reinforce these themes in your lessons. YOu can use the vocab from the texts for teaching pronunciation, etc. You'd be best to pay a long visit to Kyobo, as mentioned, but their texts should give you a place to start.