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Hot Seat!
Posted by Kathryn on 15th April in Speaking
I’m a believer in using games to educate and reward. I have a class of first graders whose favorite game is a spelling bee. Who would have thunk it? Hot Seat! comes courtesy of a coworker. It emphasizes speaking and vocabulary. It’s a simple game that uses nothing more than a marker/chalk, a chair and [...]
What Is It?
Posted by Kathryn on 30th November in Speaking
This is from a couple years ago. It’s an activity that focuses on speaking, especially asking questions and basic vocabulary. The idea is to blindfold a student and then give them an object. Another student asks the first what he/she is holding. If the student can’t guess, the other students give clues. It’s a lot [...]
A Sense of Humor
Posted by Kathryn on 13th July in Speaking
So I was in my Sha Sha class a couple weeks ago. I was passing out the books, and as usual, I was butchering the names of the kids. The kids who aren’t in the bilingual or the English imersion program don’t get English names, hence the butchering of their Korean names. One of the [...]
Eric’s Commercial
Posted by Kathryn on 14th December in Speaking
The C1 Speaking and Writing class has been reading James and the Giant Peach with me for the last few months. I’ve decided to take it slow and do a whole lot of fun stuff with it. I’ll outline those activities in another post. In our last couple of classes we’ve been doing advertisements to [...]
Coming Attractions
Posted by Kathryn on 12th December in Speaking
I’ve somewhat lax in keeping my blog updated. I do have stuff to post. I’ve just been insanely busy. So here’s a sneak peek. Birthday Friday photos Food pyramid poster Holiday photos James and the Giant Peach Activities Random student photos And probably more stuff that I can’t think of off the top of my [...]
