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jlehmke · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2014, 11:36:25 AM »

You did not attach the file.

Also, this is a very sensitive topic. I would be interested in how you approached it.

I am not even sure if this is appropriate given that it is based on so much opinion.

valium kilmer · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2014, 12:08:42 PM »

Presumably it's relative to the classes you are teaching (and I'll assume the OP knows his/her own class).

I'd be interested in the material. I have a class I think might be interested in this.

stemarty · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2014, 12:12:58 PM »

I'd like the material, too. I've lightly touched on this subject but it would be interesting to develop it further.

OP please post materials.

jlehmke · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2014, 01:17:16 PM »

Kudos to you for even attempting this project.

Also, it sounds like you have a great bunch of students!

Piv1618 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2014, 03:57:38 PM »

This PPT would make my girlfriend leave me, my students riot, my school fire me and my friends leave me to die on a cross. YOU, MY FRIEND, HAVE A SOLID SET OF STONES ON YOU. I hope everything goes smoothly.

bird212 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:21:43 PM »

I think this is good because it's backed up by facts and in the right classroom with the right co-teacher (thankfully mine aren't a nightmare like I read on here too often) it could go really well. This actually matches perfectly with a game I was going to make for my students, which will be a bunch of videos I had my family and friends send me of them asking questions about Korea. My students will have to listen and answer on the spot, pretending like they are helping a tourist. I'm going to cut down some of these discussions and use the information. Even though my class is very advanced, there are about 30 students and it's hard to have much discussion and in small groups they just resort to Korean without intense monitoring I can't provide on my own. Well done!! I love that it opens up their minds to the outside world.

ChrisKorea · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:51:05 PM »

Yeah, you must have a very open school. I can't imagine any teacher in my school wanting this taught to students. They want to maintain the Korea is the best and everyone thinks so fantasy.

jinteh · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2014, 08:17:47 PM »

Quote from: pibirogba on June 19, 2014, 11:46:15 AM

Let me know if you like this lesson. I have some more stuff I can upload.

I like this lesson, though I think I'll need to show the source material before they'll let me use it. Would you happen to have links to or copies of the original surveys/articles?

channah · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2014, 12:52:22 PM »

I really like the end of the PowerPoint where you show the Korean ads and then ask if you were non-Korean, would you be interested?
I hope they answered with a resounding NO!
Seriously? You get a billboard in Times Square and put up a picture of Dokdo (it's just a rock!).
Also, although I love bibimbap, if I'd never had it before, that definitely would not make me want to try it.
I think the topics were hit in a very real, but logical way, so there should be no way to argue, but I also think you should give some credit to Korea for trying harder.
Have you seen PSY's Koreawiki commercials?
My student's haven't seen them and I think they would be a bigger hit with non-Koreans.

Jbrady1985 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2014, 04:15:39 PM »

Quote from: pibirogba on June 19, 2014, 11:46:15 AM

Let me know if you like this lesson. I have some more stuff I can upload.

I love this lesson. It's a "difficult" topic for many Koreans I imagine and as such it can really spur on discussion. I appreciate the careful and thoughtful way you approached it and I would really love to see some more lessons you've done.
I teach at a fairly advanced Middle school and after summer break i'll be moving to an all english Middleschool/highschool and I think more lessons like this (thought provoking, lot's of discussion points) will be really useful there. Thank you for sharing. Cheers.

TigerKitty1985 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 04, 2014, 06:25:05 PM »

This is a pretty awesome topic to teach to the more advanced learners. I can't use it myself as I have middle schoolers with limited skills. But maybe I can use it for my Language Exchange.

nancy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2014, 08:21:55 PM »

I love your lesson and will use it in my summer camp. It has a lot of interesting facts for discussion. I am encouraging my students to write letters so will finish the lesson by asking them (or as a group) to write letters to Tourism Korea and offer positive suggestions for increasing tourism from a young traveller's point of view. Great idea and well presented.

mjc85 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2014, 12:54:30 PM »

The content is very good but your Middle School students must be an unbelievably high level. Mine can barely string a sentence together!
I think this would be most appropriate to teach to advanced High School students or adults who have travelled so have some idea as to how Korea is viewed in the outside world. Many Koreans who haven't travelled can be notoriously patriotic ( a trait which I hate) and deluded as to how Korea is viewed, so to some teaching that Korea or anything Korean isn't the best thing since sliced bread wouldn't go down well.

lee233 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 10, 2014, 04:50:39 PM »

I loved this lesson and I was really excited to use it. Since my students are lower level I added a couple slides comparing Korea to Austria so that they know they aren't unique in being the underdog. I also took the questions, had a Korean translation for them, and turned them into a worksheet. I planned that they would get into groups discus it in Korean, write down their answer and then have them translate it into English and read it aloud. Oh, I also included a link under the Dokdo advertisement that goes to google maps. I had the students try to find dokdo, and once they did they saw it was still labeled the British name and the sea is called the Sea of Japan. I explained to them that few people in the US knew about Dokdo or the East sea debate. I only did this after running through the lesson with my co and getting his okay. I wanted to make sure someone would understand what I was saying, so they could translate it before I got lynched.

I tried this with my 2nd grade high schoolers, but unfortunately it was still a little too advanced for them. Well, that and the fact it is post exams time that probably killed this idea. Normally I would have saved it for next year, but I am losing my high school in August, so I wanted to try and slip this in. Any who I am attaching my lesson plus the questions sheets I made. Thanks again OP for this lesson, it was great!!

TylerDurden · « **Reply #15 on:** August 17, 2014, 11:23:25 AM »

Why focus on only 'Americans' in the surveys? Sounds like you have a motive beyond teaching English with this lesson.

bird212 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 17, 2014, 08:37:47 PM »

Tyler, I think you're reading too far into it. As an American teacher myself, yes sometimes I do focus on American people/themes because that's where I'm from and so it's more relatable for the students. I can't speak for OP, but that's how I operate in my classroom. No agenda, just relatability.

delanodesroches · « **Reply #17 on:** August 18, 2014, 05:53:58 PM »

If anything, this ppt doesn't demonstrate that he is partial to the US. It does the exact opposite! It demonstrates how ignorant many Americans are when it comes to the rest of the world. Surveys also show that many US Americans believe that Africa is a country :/

This information does not surprise me in the slightest. It reaffirms the American-centric approach that many Americans view the world with and displays just how little they relate. I am pretty sure that if you asked people of other nations the same questions you would get a much better response. I do agree that the image of the North can be detrimental to the South, but I find it hard to believe that in this day and age, so many Americans are arrogant enough not to find out where the LARGEST mobile phone brand comes from. The assumption that it is Japanese is just another way good old 'murica looks at Asia, and the rest of the world

johnny russian · « **Reply #18 on:** November 21, 2014, 12:38:56 AM »

came across this video today, should be useful for this lesson.

this is a guy interviewing Australians about Korea. comes complete with Korean subs so all your students can understand it.

http://youtu.be/boqC57RYVIU

Hoosier_Jedi · « **Reply #19 on:** November 21, 2014, 02:00:24 AM »

Quote from: delanodesroches on August 18, 2014, 05:53:58 PM

If anything, this ppt doesn't demonstrate that he is partial to the US. It does the exact opposite! It demonstrates how ignorant many Americans are when it comes to the rest of the world. Surveys also show that many US Americans believe that Africa is a country :/

This information does not surprise me in the slightest. It reaffirms the American-centric approach that many Americans view the world with and displays just how little they relate. I am pretty sure that if you asked people of other nations the same questions you would get a much better response. I do agree that the image of the North can be detrimental to the South, but I find it hard to believe that in this day and age, so many Americans are arrogant enough not to find out where the LARGEST mobile phone brand comes from. The assumption that it is Japanese is just another way good old 'murica looks at Asia, and the rest of the world

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