Episode #10 part 2 is the conclusion of Itaewon Land. I show traditional Korean style sleeping, give a tour of the smoking room, kids room and a few other places in the hotel.
Month: January 2014
Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year)
Friday, January 31st is known in Korea as Seollal (sounds like Solar.) It is the Korean New Year and school will be closed Thursday January 30th and Friday to observe this holiday. This means we have a 4 day weekend. The tradition is to go visit your grandparents, or just family, and to eat together and play yut nori. Apparently it is such a big holiday that you should not travel on the roads on Friday or Saturday.
Sarah, Rin and I are all going to Seoul Thursday and Friday to enjoy the break.
Also, Episode #10 Itaewon Land Part 2 will be up on Friday, January 31st.
Stay tuned!
C.O. Episode #9 – Itaewon Land Part 1
In episode #9, part 1, I talk about the hotel and spa, Itaewon Land.
Stay tuned for Part 2!
Incheon Airport (2013)
incheon airport (2013)
this series was shot on the last day of 2013.
Martin Sketchley’s Blog Challenge Post
Our blogging friend Martin Sketchley who runs the amazing blog ELT Experiences recently tagged us in a blog challenge post.
http://eltexperiences.com/2014/01/21/in-response-to-marisa-constantinides/
We are returning the favor and answering the questions he posted in his blog.
The Task
Acknowledge the nominating blogger- in this case it would be me…
Share 11 random facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions the nominating blogger has created for you.
List 11 bloggers.
Post 11 questions for the bloggers you nominate to answer, and let all the bloggers know they have been nominated. Don’t nominate a blogger who has nominated you.
This is Sean, and since I am writing the post I will be answering the questions as well.
C.O. Episode #8 – The Walk from MyMart
In episode #8, Sarah tells us about the drinks and food we picked up from mymart, our local grocery store.
January 26th – C.O. Episode #9 “Itaewon Land” Part 1
C.O. series episodes 9 and 10 are about Itaewon Land and are broken into 2 parts. Part 1 will be up on Sunday January 26th.
Stay tuned.
Conversation
About a month and a half ago Sarah and I started adding a little bit of conversation into the beginning of the lesson before moving into the work in the book.
It has worked amazingly well and the students are definitely improving their speaking skills.
There are many ways to approach this:
In my middle school classes and upper level classes, I ask the students directly  “How are you today?” or “How is everyone today?” or “How are you feeling?”
and write down what they say with correct tenses in sentence form. Then I have my students read it back out loud.
In my lower levels I let one of my students write it out on the board and now I have a class where they love to do this. Writing not only helps the students with spelling, but it helps them sound out the words when they write it and then speak it.
As you can see, the students love to draw and write how they feel.
Another fun thing to do is count and keep a tally of how many times the students use a certain word. In the example below my students used happy 4 times, so every student used it once. So at the end I say “Everyone is happy today.” This also shows the students how often they use the same word.
My classes are now answering questions such as “What did you do last night?”
You can direct conversations with students:
It also works great with upper level students because you can have the students have conversations with one another.
Ask questions like “How was your weekend?” and “What are you doing this weekend?”
My conversation sessions at the beginning usually last 5-10 minutes with lower levels (depending on class size). Any longer and the lower level students start getting silly. It can last up to 15 minutes with upper level as it engages them to use a lot of words and form sentences which will take some time.
It may help with lower level students to print out a sheet with the names of emotions and pictures to coincide with them. Google translate is your friend as they will know words such as embarrassed, jealous, shy, proud, etc.
But this helps the students break out of the “I am fine” zombie prompt.
I take pictures of my board all of the time so I may try to start incorporating some classroom oriented posts.
January 24th – C.O. Episode #8
C.O. series episode #8 features Sarah and will be up Friday January 24th.
Stay tuned.
“A Night in Itaewon” color series (2013)
this is my first series shot in south korea. I visited itaewon in november 2013 and shot the streets at night. click the image to be taken to the series.
http://seanconleyphotography.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/a-night-in-itaewon-color-series-2013/
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