How is it that SK manages to completely f*ck up everything that comes out of an oven?I wanted to make some garlic rolls and didn't feel like making the bread, so I gingerly bought a 'baguette' at the supermarket. The damn thing was coated with sugar! I've been to numerous establishments and all the mange to do is f*ck up baked goods in different ways.Baking good bread is an art, but baking something decent isn't that hard. I would at least expect them to get it right, by accident, after so long.
Quote from: Aristocrat on October 16, 2015, 11:13:11 amHow is it that SK manages to completely f*ck up everything that comes out of an oven?I wanted to make some garlic rolls and didn't feel like making the bread, so I gingerly bought a 'baguette' at the supermarket. The damn thing was coated with sugar! I've been to numerous establishments and all the mange to do is f*ck up baked goods in different ways.Baking good bread is an art, but baking something decent isn't that hard. I would at least expect them to get it right, by accident, after so long.Yeah, garlic bread here is as sweet as cake. Pretty much anything baked is not as good in Korea. Last Christmas, to treat myself, I bought a really nice-looking chocolate cake for 30,000 won and it was the most tasteless thing I have ever tasted. I couldn't believe she had just baked it but I saw her bring it out. So disappointing.
Why do the textbooks constantly teach about Korea, and urinara in English? Learn about some western culture using the western language, MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, the kids might find learning a bit more interesting...
What the heck is that famous Titanic song called? It's being BLASTED somewhere near my school... Seriously?
I don't understand hagwons and their making students memorize words. One of my students was studying her word list and asked me what a word was. I looked at it and told her I had never in my whole entire life seen or heard that word being used. Using a bit of google, it had to do with evolutionary biology. This girl is in 4th grade.
Quote from: Action Jackson on October 16, 2015, 02:57:43 pmI don't understand hagwons and their making students memorize words. One of my students was studying her word list and asked me what a word was. I looked at it and told her I had never in my whole entire life seen or heard that word being used. Using a bit of google, it had to do with evolutionary biology. This girl is in 4th grade. I hate the word lists that kids have to memorize at my high school so much. They are like 15-pages, 2 columns of words per page, and every single line is just (one English word) - (one Korean word). No context, no explanation. Not every English word has a 1:1 Korean equivalent...It's just an exercise in making them hate English while falling deeper into the typical Konglish word-usage errors.
I have to teach 2 weeks of social studies starting on Mon. The plan is that I teach them a little abt festivals around the world and then they have to plan a festival and make a poster for it. I asked my handler (and wrote it down on a note!) to please buy the following: 85 x posters, 10 x colored pencils and 10 x glue sticks. Right then we went online and I showed her what I wanted her to order. I got the posters and the glue sticks as ordered and ONE PACKET of 10 colored pencils... !!!! I just looked at her, shook my head and walked out.
Quote from: nmoolman on October 15, 2015, 01:53:54 pmI have to teach 2 weeks of social studies starting on Mon. The plan is that I teach them a little abt festivals around the world and then they have to plan a festival and make a poster for it. I asked my handler (and wrote it down on a note!) to please buy the following: 85 x posters, 10 x colored pencils and 10 x glue sticks. Right then we went online and I showed her what I wanted her to order. I got the posters and the glue sticks as ordered and ONE PACKET of 10 colored pencils... !!!! I just looked at her, shook my head and walked out.You asked for 10 x colored pencils and got 10 colored pencils. What's the problem?
I am back in my bad travel school after being away for three weeks, and as expected, it is Hell. For the first class back I just wanted to play a game with them. The game is a simple boggle game. I show a grid of nine letters (3x3), each team tries to get as many words as possible in three minutes, then they have to eliminate the words they have in common. It sounds so easy, but implementing was torture. Getting them to do each step was like trying to steer a boat in churning waters, because they were so loud and not understanding the concept, even when my co-teacher explained it, and then they are all talking at once, every word is disputed, even ones that do not exist (like ‘ral’ and ‘lge’) and they just keep talking and talking. At first, after they had finished getting words in three minutes, I had one person from each team stand, and one would read a word, and I wanted it so that if they both had the word, they crossed it out, but of course the people sitting kept talking, the person would just read through the list, there would be discussions within each group (loud ones) and it was so f*ck*ng chaotic. I just wanted to play a game, for f*ck’s sake. And the co-teacher (Mr. Kim) was here, and was helping: he would try to direct the whole reading out loud process, but it was too much, and then I decided to just collect the papers and figure out which words were valid on my own each time, and though it made things run smoother it also made the game more boring. Argh, I hate this travel school.
QuoteI am back in my bad travel school after being away for three weeks, and as expected, it is Hell. For the first class back I just wanted to play a game with them. The game is a simple boggle game. I show a grid of nine letters (3x3), each team tries to get as many words as possible in three minutes, then they have to eliminate the words they have in common. It sounds so easy, but implementing was torture. Getting them to do each step was like trying to steer a boat in churning waters, because they were so loud and not understanding the concept, even when my co-teacher explained it, and then they are all talking at once, every word is disputed, even ones that do not exist (like ‘ral’ and ‘lge’) and they just keep talking and talking. At first, after they had finished getting words in three minutes, I had one person from each team stand, and one would read a word, and I wanted it so that if they both had the word, they crossed it out, but of course the people sitting kept talking, the person would just read through the list, there would be discussions within each group (loud ones) and it was so f*ck*ng chaotic. I just wanted to play a game, for f*ck’s sake. And the co-teacher (Mr. Kim) was here, and was helping: he would try to direct the whole reading out loud process, but it was too much, and then I decided to just collect the papers and figure out which words were valid on my own each time, and though it made things run smoother it also made the game more boring. Argh, I hate this travel school.middle school? it sounds like you tried to do an activity that was a bit too complicated for them. i've found keeping things simple is usually better, and can help with classroom management.
Yeah, I was worried it would be too hard for them, but my co-teacher said he would translate, so don't worry. Shouldn't have listened.
When I have done Scattergories I write all of the teams' answers on the board. Then I can show them the points by indicating an answer is unique (2 points), the same as another team (1 point each) or not in the category (0 points). They soon figure it out.