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whiskey fairy:
My co-teacher wants me to come to the weekly staff meeting and teach English for 5 minutes.
Most of the teachers are beginners and the "class" will be really big seeing as all the teachers attend.
I don't have any computer/ projector or board available to me during the meetings.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to do something constructive in less than 5 minutes?
Cheers

justanotherwaygook:
Wow that's quick.  I would try to teach an expression everyday.  Introduce it, see if they can break it down, and explain it.

Or maybe do a quote of the day.

vw08:
I had to do teachers English when I taught in Taiwan and sometimes did very short news articles in English because the teacher were a little higher level.  I also did phrases/sentences related to what was going on in the calendar year like holidays, seasons and special events at school, such as sports day.

For your situation, try doing 2-3 related survival English phrases. Basic topics like directions, greetings, how to buy things and emotions could all be appropriate for beginner teachers.  If you give a quarter page or so handout with the phrase(s) both in English and Korean and even transliterated into Hangul it might be helpful too.

siriuslylost:
Self-Introductions and being able to ask for help/directions are two very important skills, so maybe some rapid fire questions/dialogue to practice that.

livzy:
Hi
My name is ....
Nice to meet you.
How are you?
I'm good, thanks.
Where are you from?

Get them introducing each other after practicing with you individually. Maybe have some soft drinks around so they can pretend it's a gathering (formal or not). You could make name badges (stick on) and treat it like a conference where some people there are English native speakers?

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