Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools: Bingo

Now that March is around the new school year has started, and with it has come a lot of new English Conversation Teachers. Hopefully you’ve seen our ESL Resources already so you can have an idea of what it’s like to teach English in Korea. The videos we made from our classes, though, make it [...]

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Winter/Summer Camps Complete Package

Your co-teachers right about now are asking you what you are going to do for your English lessons during winter camps, and they want a full schedule of what you’re going to do by tomorrow. Overwhelmed? Don’t be. I’ll give you mine. Here you’ll get the schedule to print out and give to your teacher, [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools – Guess Who

Next week we’re going to be giving another presentation for the Gepik Orientation, so here’s a video in the spirit of helping teachers. Here’s another video of a lesson we do teaching English in a Korean Middle School Class. Like the last Battleship lesson, this is a class where the teacher does minimal talking and [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools – Battleship

We have received a lot of questions about teaching English in public schools. If we don’t speak Korean, how do we communicate with our students? What do we teach them? What do the classes look like? We decided to start taping some of our classes to show everyone what they’re like. This video here is [...]

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Hobbies Game

Students ask each other about their hobbies through this fun guessing game. Take a few minutes at the beginning the class to explain the rules, and then they’ll be speaking in English, listening to English, and responding in English for the rest of the class.

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Weather and Future Tense

Students talk about the weather, the future, and play an intense game for both. This was a lesson used for an open class, so if you have any open classes coming up in front of your school or the entire city, then you can use this: it worked great, and had everyone impressed.

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Board Games

Students can practice either past tense, passive structure, or vacation talk through a gameboard and dice. Fully editable templates, if you’d like to change it up. Dice and board pieces not included, obviously! But you can buy dice at a local stationery shop for cheap (there usually are some close to your school) and the [...]

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