Monday, February 18, 2008

Lessons with video clips

In her demonstration lesson one student was practicing ways to give advice and encouragement. Her classmates used some of the common phrases. I think they speak great English., but they usually disagreed with me when I said that. One time I asked them if they disagreed because it's considered rude to speak highly of oneself in Korean culture. Someone told me that this was one factor. Also, because they're English teachers, they have high standards for speaking English and feel frustrated that theirs isn't perfectly fluent.

Here's Sally. She's responding to an imaginary high school student's confession of a crush on a classmate.

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