Maxim Coffee CF

This commercial film shows the love story between hansome man and pretty woman with the familiar song, ong ld love. The normative message is to connect the old memory with the reunion. She was heartbroken at seeing him with another girl. One day, she waited fior him on the way home, he tood s her on the bike. She remembered the feeling when he pulled her hand in his pocket on the bike, As she grows up, she finds his name at the advertisement. While they miss each other, they face with at the crosswalk. The normative questions are "How is your feeling when you meet the first love?" "What is the most memorable time?" "What happens when she meets him?"   The oppositional message is to transfer the quality of coffeea by comparing the past and current situation. It lasts for a long time. So, the questions are "How do you describe the taste of this coffee as?" "How can you connect the love with memories and constant coffee?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnubue1K4k

critical lesson(1)

My class is in an extra-curricular English class as part of an after-school program at an elementary school in a near city of Seoul in Korea, which I worked since last year. The school provides an after-school English program according to Korean government policy of reducing the parents’ burden for English education. The parents at this school could not afford private English lessons, so they want to participate in the program. I am in charge of three different kinds of after school program, nursing class, ping-pong player class, and creativity class. The school gives me the extra money by different scale. The first and second classes are paid by the time period and the last is supplied with the number of students. I didn’t get any extra money last year for lacking in the regular classes per week. They are for younger students from first grade to fourth grade.

Nursing class is mixed with ages and levels. At the beginning of semester, it starts with almost 30 and will reduce the number of students as class goes by. During seventeen class periods, students get to know the alphabet and phonics. To cut back the preparation for the class, I choose a phinics book that is provided from the school. At the introduction stage, I have the greeting, review and introducing today's lesson to warm and motivate. I usually show the video clip that is useful to focus on. Favorite character, atrractive visual and cheerful melody is needed to choose. They sing a song by following the tune. I always ask the comprehensive questions to check how much they understand. At the development stage, I teach the contents on the basis of the textbook. I just use it 1 page each period. I ask  a lot of questions as soon as  possible by using the textbook. I let them guess and imagine more. At the consolidation stage, I asses them one by one after inducing them concentrating some work like worksheet.

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Method

From the article, I think which method is the difficult or impossible in real classes. Considering the students' language ability and age, teacher-centered method like grammar teanslation  is hard. It's easy for them to feel bored when they always listen to the teacher's talk. They don't have long concentration time. In order to attract their focus, I need to use the music and visual things such as the pictures and video clips. In addtion, when I choose the topic, I need to read their interest. If I use the things that they want to real with, I can manage the class better. Boosting their participation actively, I make the rewards properly both asking and answering the questions. Otherwise, the qulification as a teacher is emphasezed. I pay more attention to prepare for materials and modify after simulating them in real classroom. Many trials and errors I'm willing to face with and overcome for the further efficient lesson.

about critical

How often have ever thought of the word critical? In some ways, it is very new to me. I was a kind passive student. Though I have a different idea to others, I can't express my minds clearly. Why? What makes me be afraid of telling the hidden mind? I am not familiar with this class mood yet, and I need more time to be accustomed to it. Moerover, I want to find the purpose of this subject. After completing it, how useful it works in my clasroom... I wonder and I hope to give a good result .

Korea's proofreading wooes

Elliot patton is speaking about incorrect English  to general people including Koreans. He points out that though Korea government spend a lot of money in english education, a lot of mistakes happens frequently. Compared with other countires in East where english grammatical mistake is rare, he finds  English incorrect easily. He criticizes that Korean government saves their efforts to correct them even though suggesting the corrections.