This is my own Hallowe'en lesson showing how to
properly use Korean subtitled South Park episodes in your lessons.
Hallowe'en:
- Native Speaker gives students a pop quiz on Halloween. 10 minutes.
- Native Speaker goes over the pop quiz. 5 minutes.
- Native Speaker demonstrates Hallowe’en by playing South Park Video. 20 minutes.
- Students perform Crossword worksheet. 10 minutes.
- Native Speakers goes over Crossword worksheet. 5 minutes.
Notes:
- I assumed that the kids would have some exposure to Hallowe’en so I expected them to have no problem with the Hallowe’en Questions worksheet; the smart students managed to get a phrase or two for each question (“wear mask and get candy”) but others just looked at me with dumbfounded expressions.
- The smart students know to write down the words that the class brainstorms for Hallowe’en symbols. Be sure to mention the words used in the crossword activity at this point.
- There’s almost too much work in this lesson so the timing of this class can go wrong if the kids are slow. I just end the worksheets early instead of skipping South Park.
- Some teachers use South Park episode as filler, but here it works incredibly well since it follows the kids around their town during a Hallowe’en night zombie crisis.
- Eric Cartman is an excellent role model for teaching Racism in Asia since he dressed as Hitler and a KKK member. This is just an observation for a future lesson and has nothing to do with a lesson on Hallowe’en.
The video is available from pandora.tv.
EP1-7 Pink Eye is the better of the hallowe'en specials (the alternative video is
EP3-12 South Park Korns Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery).
The crossword was created from Variety Game’s
Crossword Maker.
More information about my lessons can be found
here.
