BY FAR "How do you say it in Korean" in 6th grade. I used to wonder where Koreans learned all this self-aggrandizing crap about how great everything is here and how everything is traditional Korean. (I recently bought a bag of frozen hamburgers that said "traditional korean hamburger steak." Don't even tell me it's not overused.) I used to wonder how they pass on those kinds of attitudes.Now I find out that they have an entire chapter in their ENGLISH textbook to talk about KOREAN things. Most foreign language classes have culture chapters about native speakers of the target language. When US kids take Spanish, they learn about Argentina and Mexico and Spain etc. etc. etc. Yet when Korean children take ENGLISH. They learn about... Korea. The lesson is finally over and I'm so relieved to be finished with it.
Quote from: RogueFishFood on November 29, 2012, 10:30:58 amBY FAR "How do you say it in Korean" in 6th grade. I used to wonder where Koreans learned all this self-aggrandizing crap about how great everything is here and how everything is traditional Korean. (I recently bought a bag of frozen hamburgers that said "traditional korean hamburger steak." Don't even tell me it's not overused.) I used to wonder how they pass on those kinds of attitudes.Now I find out that they have an entire chapter in their ENGLISH textbook to talk about KOREAN things. Most foreign language classes have culture chapters about native speakers of the target language. When US kids take Spanish, they learn about Argentina and Mexico and Spain etc. etc. etc. Yet when Korean children take ENGLISH. They learn about... Korea. The lesson is finally over and I'm so relieved to be finished with it. This.I turned the tables using the same sentence structure to say 'How do you say this in ENGLISH?" Needless to say, the students were not amused I also tied it into a lesson about postcards I was planning to do anyway.
Most foreign language classes have culture chapters about native speakers of the target language. When US kids take Spanish, they learn about Argentina and Mexico and Spain etc. etc. etc. Yet when Korean children take ENGLISH. They learn about... Korea. The lesson is finally over and I'm so relieved to be finished with it.
Mine is 6th Grade "What do you think of Sim Cheong?" None of my students have read any of the books they are talking about. Two students out of the whole sixth grade had any idea who "Jean Valjan" was. It is so irrellevant and useless for them that I cannot blame them for acting out in class due to boredom.
I have always disliked the old 6th grade lesson. Don't take off your shoes. They were trying to teach the word don't. I think they could have come up with many other options for teaching don't instead of teaching that we don't take off our shoes in the house. lol I taught it anyway with a bit added to it from me.