EFL Geek 3.0 - ESL & EFL in Korea

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Real English

I’ve been clearing out some email and came across another email from a reader with a site for students using real people called Real English - sounds similar to what I posted two days ago - Real ESL.

Real English is produced by Mike in the south of France. The videos head out to the street and stop random people and interview them on a specific point illustrating a language point. I can definitely see this being useful for very low level students. Mike says:

I interview people in the street in order to get original, spontaneous speech on camera. Then I take this very messy spontaneity and organize it into structures and functions for beginners and intermediate students, and then make lessons around these video.

I really like the intro to each video - it’s catchy. Below is the video for lesson six - introducing people, introducing yourself. This video also has participants spell their names.

6-IntroducingPeople
by realdogswimming

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Teaching | useful_web_sites | Video | (1)

How many hours are you contracted

How many hours are you contracted for? There’s a poll so if you’re reading in RSS, come on down and vote. I know it’s vacation season for many public school and university teachers so you should vote for how many hours you are contracted to teach during the semester. If you do over time or have something else to say, please leave a comment.

looking forward to your responses.

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 07:33 PM
Teaching | Polling_Station | (0)

Real ESL

Real ESL is a video blog by Kim Purcell that answers questions from second language learners and posts them up in a video on YouTube. Kim’s blog also contains a transcript of each video as an aid for learners.

Kim sent me an email introducing her site, which I had stumbled across before. I was checking it out in more detail this time when my wife (Korean) commented on her voice saying that she spoke very clearly - good for students. Kim has over 10 years of teaching experience in Mexico, Korea, and L.A. - from her bio.

Below you can see a video from this entry. Watch the video and then check out her blog, it’s been running solid for several months now.

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Jul 1, 2008 at 08:40 PM
useful_web_sites | Readers_Questions | Video | (0)

SnapShots Keep ‘em or tank em?

I received a comment about the redesign suggesting that I get rid of the SnapShots preview of external links. I’m not sure how I feel about them right now myself, so I’ll leave this decision up to my readers. Come to the site and vote in the poll.