Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I have some ideas but am eager to hear what others are planning. I'm hoping to use it as an opportunity to teach a bit of geography as well. I'd like to do some player profiles that will teach things like nationality, languages, weight, height, age, numbers, etc. If I taught boys I think I'd try to get them to make dream teams, but given my students' knowledge of non-Korean players I think I'd end up with a whole team of David Beckhams if I tried that. I thought maybe I'd try to profile a few female players like Mia Hamm as well.

What are your ideas? Does anyone know of any short, downloadable clips of matches with a bit of English commentary for which one could print out a script?

[alabamaman]

[harryh]

With my younger students, I'm teaching WILL for predictions.

I've set up a Prediction League for the world cup. Should be fun.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[inspector gadget]

I am planning a draw with predictions, positions and geography but the bulk of my lesson will be about sportsmanship things like respect other players, teams, countries, no diving and officials. Simply because Koreans don't seem to know what that is in any way, shape, form or language.

[cubanlord]

You guys are gonna kill me.....I went to CNN.com and printed out the listing of 6 different team rankings. I then placed them in a pyramid shape (since Korea is world ranked 23 and the last place of the 6 that I printed). Of course the US was up there in spot 5.

Anyways, for my advanced writing class (compare and contrast writing is the topic we are on now), I am having them analyze the print out and comparing some team against Korea (I will be printing out the remainder of the teams soon and placing them on my board). They set up an outline, brainstorm, etc.

[PRagic]

I'm going to drink beer during the game with a load of teachers from several universities. We're going to talk about our students during lulls in the game Tuesday. I anticipate great material.

[baldrick]

I have 31 students and me = 1 team per person. So we had a draw and I gave the kids instructions on how to find their teams flag using the google image search function. They all drew their country's flag on a piece of A4 along with their name and the country name. I made a massive chart with all the groups on the backboard so we can follow it through and see which teams, or rather who gets knocked out. I'll write the scores of the previous day on the board in the mornings so we can change the flags in the groups appropriately. Everybody is interested and fighting with the others in their group!

[Hotpants]

You may be interested in this link which I found on the BBC this morning. It plays on the idea of the Panini sticker album. Apparently, you can download an album and need to collect images of snacks from around the world - sounds like it could work in a kids class, especially as not all kids might appreciate our enthusiasm in the World Cup!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5059676.stm

[ChopChaeJoe]

I'm supposed to come up with World cup lessons for classes of five year olds that I see for 15 minutes once a week. Now how the heck do you do that?

[khyber]

I would suggest learning the English cheers (and songs) that don't involve dirty stuff.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[flotsam]

OK.

It's already Tuesday, and I am in a lazy arse mood this week so I am just posting this now.

World Cup Football Trivia Showdown

Quite simple really, and I am pretty sure I borrowed the idea from a similar American football game I heard described once:

1. Draw this(or do something technological if you can be bothered) on the board:



No A or B required.

2. I also write

Box for Score Underscore for Team Name vs. Underscore for Team Name Box for Score

above the field.

3. Show the kids a magnet, elicit what it is. By the time the pitch is drawn and on the board, most everybody knows what's going on so many of them will pipe in "It's the ball". Place the ball in the center circle.

4. Break the class into two teams.

5. Demonstrate how to get the ball downfield. I usually do this by asking what color my shirt is. They yell out "Blue!" and I remind them to raise their hands. First to do so's team move the ball past the halfway line downfield between the line and the penalty box.

6. Another right, in the penalty box. Three in a row--goal.

7. Of course, if the other team gets a correct answer, the ball moves back. Or, you can have their first correct answer account for stealing the ball, and then start moving back--but I can't be bothered with all that for the low-level kids.

8. For fun, I create offenses for giving out yellow/red cards. With my high level classes they are given out for speaking English. For my low-level classes they are given out for:

a. Putting your head down/sleeping.
b. Yelling or hitting another student.
c. Screaming out 뭐래? After I ask a questionrRather than thinking for themselves. (Can you guess this peeves me?)
d. Yelling out stupid answers. My favorites are ones like:

Flotsam:"What country in Africa did famous actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just have their baby in?"
Boy Student: "LA?"

Card.

etc.

9. If one team receives a red card, it's a penalty kick for the other team.

10. For these situations, at the beginning of the game I have each team pick a goalkeeper--someone good at English to defend against the other team when they are awarded a penalty kick. When one is awarded, the goalkeeper comes to the front of the class, and one student from the other team comes up to attempt the kick. I ask a question and if the kicker answers first, goal. Goalie answers first: save. I like assigning the goalkeeper at the beginning because that prevents the most dominant students from taking all the penalty kicks.

If anyone yells an answer: red card. Yesterday I had one team who just didn't get it and lined up 4 penalty kicks against them--all during the initial penalty kick.

--I really, really miss my girl's high school sometimes.

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Anyway, you can see there are a ton of variations you could try with this.

Finally, for questiions I gave the students a choice between World Cup and General trivia.

World Cup:

When was the first world cup?
Which team has five goal scorers from the 2002 World Cup?

etc.

Hope somebody gets some use out of this.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Great idea, Flotsam. I think I'll try that for my HS classes this week.

I'm also doing a dialogue that contains the lines:

Betty-Sue: Yeah, who do you think is gunna to win the World Cup?
Mary-Lou: That�s hard to say. There are so many good teams, like Brazil, France, and Korea.

And nobody finds this the least bit humorous, odd, or flattering.

[flotsam]

Yeah, I teach some English equivalents for the Konglish phrases used here: "heading"; "goal-in"; etc. And I was going to utilize a dialog as well..but then June lethargy set in...and game week it is.