Category Archives: Teaching English in Korea

Teaching English in Korea links

Posted on 26/09/2010 by alexcase

These three are mine as usual, with the first one a new one. I guess if I really felt guilty about selling myself all the time I’d stop doing it… Then there are twenty or so others, including official US government advice, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Teaching English in Korea | 2 Comments

Guest piece- 2000 Sri Lankan English Teachers Coming to Korea??

Posted on 11/08/2010 by alexcase

by Anontastic “No doubt,  anyone reading the EL Gazette this month may have done a double take when looking at the front page for August 2010 – I know that I did. According to the headlines, Korea plans to recruit … Continue reading →

Posted in EL Gazette, Teaching English in Korea, The Marxist TEFL Group | Tagged , | 14 Comments

Differences between Japanese and Korean students

Posted on 01/08/2010 by alexcase

“According to [Kristina Beckam-Bristo’s study of cross-cultural classroom behaviors(2003)], Korean students believe that offering personal viewpoints in class is highly acceptable (given a rating of 5 out of 5), while Japanese students believe this behavior to be highly unacceptable (given … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL | 9 Comments

Not just your average TEFL prisoner

Posted on 11/07/2010 by alexcase

Unlike Japan, there aren’t a lot of good books about Korea. Unfortunately Brother One Cell, the story of an “English teacher” who got imprisioned for trying to smuggle dope, is a typically unrewarding read- you learn next to nothing about … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching English in Korea, TEFL | 4 Comments

New Advanced level worksheets

Posted on 05/06/2010 by alexcase

All designed for and used with Landmark Advanced (boy, is that a book that needs some supplementing!), but most easily useable with any Advanced or high Upper Intermediate class,and all copiable from here into Word or printable as PDFs. Topics include: … Continue reading →

Posted in Adjectives, Cultural differences/ cultural training, euphemisms, Language of generalisation, Past continuous, Photocopiable worksheets, Present perfect/ simple past, slang, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL games, Vague language and hedging, Webquest | Leave a comment

Why we really do what we do Part Three- Culture

Posted on 31/05/2010 by alexcase

Finally prompted to continue this series on WWRDWWD by Scott Thornbury’s thought provoking (as ever) piece on Flow, flow being something I’ve been pondering on for a while. I have this strange obsession with making sure all parts of my lesson “flow”, if … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Lesson planning, Staging, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea | 3 Comments

An interview with EFL Geek, the real grandfather of TEFL blogging

Posted on 25/04/2010 by alexcase

Hopefully he won’t mind the grandfather bit, seeing as we are almost exactly the same age (along with a surprisingly large number of other bloggers- is it a middle aged crisis thing to do??) I’m also hoping that he won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in EFL geek, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL | Tagged , | 4 Comments

New game-like worksheets March 2010 Part Two

Posted on 10/03/2010 by alexcase

Worksheet for MyStoryMaker online storytelling (see Sean Banville’s blog for more details on using that site) Company buffet meeting (if they can talk about food, they can do the language of meetings- with a little bit of culture sprinkled on top) … Continue reading →

Posted in countable and uncountable nouns, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Family vocabulary, Food vocabulary, Future tenses, Grammar games, Household vocabulary, Language of generalisation, Language of meetings, online games, Speaking games, Teaching English in Korea, Technology, TEFL, Vocabulary, will for offers, Writing games | 2 Comments

Weekend TEFL courses- better than nothing or bringing us all down?

Posted on 01/01/2010 by alexcase

My feeling is that some people are doing weekend courses where previously they would have done a four week one, which can’t be good. Then again,the majority of people who do weekend courses now would probably just do no training if … Continue reading →

Posted in i-to-i TEFL, Teacher training, Teaching English in China, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL certificate, TEFL qualifications, Weekend TEFL course | 11 Comments

Interview- TEFL Hero Jon Marks on the life of a full-time TEFL writer

Posted on 31/12/2009 by alexcase

It’s been a while since I’ve used the TEFL hero category, and I’ve even stripped some people of the honour (and Sandy MacManus has been pretty close a couple of times), but I’m glad I kept it going because Jon Marks deserves it for … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge Young Learner Exams, Delta Publishing, EFL exams, ELT publishing, English Teaching Professional, General English textbooks, getting into ELT publishing, Getting published, Grammar games, IELTS, links, Photocopiable worksheets, PPP (Presentation practice production), Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL games, TEFL heroes- Jon Marks, TEFL pay, TEFL Tradesman, textbooks, Writing ELT textbooks and materials | Tagged | 2 Comments