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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.

[AlexMokpo]

HAHAHAHA, I love that I've got you addicted to using South Park as a means of teaching in class   It really is a great way to keep them interested, teach them something, and provide it in a very AMerican perspective