This was the first class of the fall term and the lesson seemed somewhat appropriate.
Greetings:
- Native Speaker introduces the concept of different levels of greetings. 5 minutes.
- Native Speaker goes over the different levels of formality with Korean greetings. 5 minutes.
- Native Speaker introduces the formality spectrum and solicits students to place people on the spectrum. 10 minutes.
- Native Speaker introduces North American greetings that match the Korean greetings. 20 minutes.
- Students perform North American greetings vocabulary worksheet. 10 minutes.
Notes:
- The worksheet took the form of a word search and most students took longer than 10 minutes.
- Presenting the greeting as videos worked well for most of the classes, especially when we got to the end and used Mr. Bean greeting the Queen as the very formal greeting.
- This class can be as interactive as you want it to be. On one hand you can have the North American greetings presented as skits by the students or the other you can use videos.
- I presented with videos, but my choice was a product of doing this at the last minute, the night before class; more effort could have delivered better, more presentable examples.
My PowerPoint has embedded videos that need to be in a the same directory as the power point file. If that doesn't work they can be found online:
The wordsearch was generator by one of the vast
collection of word search generator.
Other points of this lesson:
- Teaching the concept Wazzzup and Bootyshake.
- Introducing the kids to the wonderful world of Scrubs.
- Seeing the effects first hand of playing Mr. Bean videos. The Korean kids love 'em; they are video gold.
More information about my lessons can be found
here.
