Korean Job Discussion Forums

[HaleyShaw]

I'm off in March for my first experience job in Korea. Did you bring ESL books with you? Should I find some activity books or will my school probably have enough materials?

[OiGirl]

I wouldn't buy any ESL books to take with you. If you have some favorites that you used with great sucess in the past, you might want to mail them to yourself. I find it actually much easier to buy ESL books in Korea than where I lived in the US. Depending on who you're teaching, you may want to bring a few favorite children's books. If you are a reader, I would bring a bunch of books you've never gotten around to reading rather than anything for work.

[ddeubel]

Yeah, I agree. Photocopy lessons, blackline masters, practical things that you can use. Save space. Books tend to get used infrequently, buy the others here if needed. As stated, bring personal reading. This will help on many levels. Get a mag. subscription, international, once you know your address. This will help once a month, connect you. (and much cheaper and less hit and miss than Whatthebook, the book store). I subscribe to both Outside and Harpers and they get here timely and the price works out to only 3 bucks or so an issue. Pretty good.

DD

PS> I'd start scouting the internet as a resource. Make a good list of sites you find stimulating. Everyone has their own preferences and you'd be best just grazing. I have a list on my site, as a start...hopefully I will get to updating it the next few months, having some downtime now.....

[swetepete]

You don't really need to, but if you do, I'd suggest using Oxford or Cambridge books. They're generally quite good. There's a terrible awful lot of awful terrible ESL books out there...I wish I could remember the name of the particular series I used that was so good but I'm on vacation and my brain's shrunk up to the size of a smoked walnut.
Just remember OXFORD!