haha yeah. i've had teachers ask me a grammar question over the years, i give them the answer, then later they tell me i'm wrong because the korean english book says differently. "but it says this in the book!"
"It's weather for ducks." (It's raining.) <--Maybe this is just an idiom I've never heard before?
...'Stripper Day' ...
After that, I realised that Korean paperwork is bollocks.
F*cking hell, KEB Hana Bank.Last week, I tried sending a few buck from my bank back home to my KEB account. I forgot to convert my local currency into USD so 1hr after sending the payment, my bank back home sent me an e-mail saying the payment would be returned by KEB once it reaches Korea and that no further action is required... <meh> ok. I've been getting constant phone calls from KEB, since Tuesday, sometimes 3-4 times a day and usually when I'm at work. Whenever I pick up, it's a terrified, mousy lady who speaks next to no English and we waste 10min trying in vain to communicate. I'm learning Korean and struggle to find the words when I'm under stress, I can empathise with her... BUT, at the end of the first call I requested them to send me an e-mail or call me back with someone who speaks English.KEB has always marketed itself as an English friendly bank, I shouldn't have to deal with this BS, especially while I'm trying to teach a class.Still, I'm constantly getting called with a different mousy lady reading the same script in broken English and if I don't answer they'll keep calling till the damn phone vibrates it's bullocks off throughout my whole lesson. I tell them "I UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION" "STOP CALLING ME"... then she'll ask me to speak slower and no matter how slowly I speak she doesn't understand and she reads the script from the beginning. I finally got an e-mail from them, which was pretty much fed through a translator and is pretty much incomprehensible. Thank God it's weekend and they can stop calling.
Why don't you just find an easier version online for free. Change a few words. Say you wrote it?I mean, he wants it has a play but surely not one that's going to last a few hours. Copy it. Skim it down. It's possible that something about his instructions got lost in translation? Anyway, I'd just plagiarize the f out someones work if it was me.
Quote from: Pennypie on June 29, 2018, 07:52:18 amWhy don't you just find an easier version online for free. Change a few words. Say you wrote it?I mean, he wants it has a play but surely not one that's going to last a few hours. Copy it. Skim it down. It's possible that something about his instructions got lost in translation? Anyway, I'd just plagiarize the f out someones work if it was me. The easier versions I've found, are a lot different to "his" version.Usually with a different ending or middle. Otherwise, that was my plan too. :p I think, since we are starting in semester 2, I doubt the students are going to be good enough at this to perform it as a play in front of an audience. (Less time and all that), I also think, because of the speaking test results, he thinks the students will be capable of this. I don't think he realizes we were focusing on the textbook questions, and how well they understood the questions, as well as, how they answered the question. We didn't take grammar or pronunciation into accounting when giving the speaking test grades. And they are a lot simpler than something like this. I also doubt, we are going to get enough students to really do this haha.
Got caught up in some work and forgot about the time, and now lunch is about a minute away and I don't have time to use the restroom before my coT shows up.
Special cooking class for English festival week. Making Bingsu. 30 kids. So messy
Quote from: Pennypie on July 03, 2018, 12:38:42 pmSpecial cooking class for English festival week. Making Bingsu. 30 kids. So messy It's all in the prep- Tablecloths, toppings in wide-brimmed containers rather than narrow jars, plastic gloves, servig ladles/spoons, etc.
Quote from: Pennypie on July 03, 2018, 12:38:42 pmSpecial cooking class for English festival week. Making Bingsu. 30 kids. So messy It's always a bit ironic when traditional Korean foods are made for an English festival. It's like opening the texts and seeing in-depth explanations of Korean places, customs, and history.I get why it's done, but...
Quote from: Pennypie on July 03, 2018, 12:38:42 pmSpecial cooking class for English festival week. Making Bingsu. 30 kids. So messy It's always a bit ironic when traditional Korean foods are made for an English festival.