Saturday, June 12, 2004
My Kids
Sometimes my younger kids are tough. There are a few who don't know much English at all. I have one girl (Sung Yun Park) who knows some words and that's about it. I try to get ideas across to her, but she only pics up words. I just got a new kid that is so young that he's only there for 2 classes. We worked on colors, but didn't get very far. I'm not sure WTF I'm going to do with him.
Then in the later classes, the kids are older. I have one class with two girls, Sarah and Marsha, who both spent time outside of Korea. Sarah lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 3 years and Marsha lived in New Zealand for 1 (you can her her Kiwi accent somethetimes and it's really adorable). It's a 2 hour speaking class, so we basically just hang out and talk. We take breaks and play games sometimes, but it doesn't require a lot of preparation. I've got one kid who lived in Australia for a year or two, and he's really into sports, so with him I just hang out and talk about things and try to relate it to the topic in the book. His listening ability is very good, but his pronunciation needs a bit of work. I let him use his electronic dictionary, since he's at a level where he can improve on his own. Last week, we talked about tailgating at sports events.
Then in the later classes, the kids are older. I have one class with two girls, Sarah and Marsha, who both spent time outside of Korea. Sarah lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 3 years and Marsha lived in New Zealand for 1 (you can her her Kiwi accent somethetimes and it's really adorable). It's a 2 hour speaking class, so we basically just hang out and talk. We take breaks and play games sometimes, but it doesn't require a lot of preparation. I've got one kid who lived in Australia for a year or two, and he's really into sports, so with him I just hang out and talk about things and try to relate it to the topic in the book. His listening ability is very good, but his pronunciation needs a bit of work. I let him use his electronic dictionary, since he's at a level where he can improve on his own. Last week, we talked about tailgating at sports events.
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Since (at least in this country - USA), many kids are extremely visual, why don't you have the kids staRt making flash cards. In this case, have them use something like a 4 x 6 inch (go ahead translate it into metrics) the card should have a picture of the thing or concept (as they understand it - a mnemonic) and perhaps the Korean word for it on the back is the English word. They can share their cards with each other as they do the work and give reasons for the images they used. They must use English to explain their reasoning.
It is hard to understand but language must fill up the "little grey cells"
Your assignments can springboard into sets of flash cards on particular topics.
or even a comparison of situations between American scenarios and the same thing in Korea.
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Since (at least in this country - USA), many kids are extremely visual, why don't you have the kids staRt making flash cards. In this case, have them use something like a 4 x 6 inch (go ahead translate it into metrics) the card should have a picture of the thing or concept (as they understand it - a mnemonic) and perhaps the Korean word for it on the back is the English word. They can share their cards with each other as they do the work and give reasons for the images they used. They must use English to explain their reasoning.
It is hard to understand but language must fill up the "little grey cells"
Your assignments can springboard into sets of flash cards on particular topics.
or even a comparison of situations between American scenarios and the same thing in Korea.
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