Posts Tagged ‘Konglish’
part i: korea love
In my holiday ambivalence post, I mentioned my renewed intention to focus on the great parts of living in Korea. I know I’ve gone out of order, and skipped to part ii: to your health before addressing part i, but here we are, finally getting around to it. (I am intentionally waiting on part iii [...]
“you look very shiny today”
One of my favorite and most entertaining students decided to pay me a compliment when I walked into class today, and it turned into a rather hilarious teaching moment. He’s a flirt and joker, but a diligent student, so he gets away with it. Today, he looked at me with a big smile and said: [...]
letter to white witch
The school here offers classes in a variety of subjects, including a selection of reading and writing classes for students who are in the early phases of learning English. They read a series of books and are introduced to the process of writing responses. A friend recently assigned his students the task of writing a [...]
toefl stumpers (i)
Teaching TOEFL speaking means it’s your job to make sure your students can pronounce words correctly. The fun way to make this happen? Find words that are difficult for them to say, break them down, and make them practice — together, in unison, loudly. The biggest offenders are words that have some combination of the [...]
konglish (iii)
Ah, yes. Fairyland English: “The place where is full of joy.” Just where I’d send my little ones to master the English language.