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Photoblog: Unesco’s Global Peace Village

Last week, I went to Icheon to teach at an English Camp for a week. It was the first time I ever taught at a camp, but I truly enjoyed teaching at Unesco’s Icheon Global Peace Village. It is a very impressively modern cam...

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Surviving Seoul Part 1: Teaching Tips

Listeners, I’m not sure if you know this, but I haven’t always been an MC in Korea. Like many foreigners that come to Korea, my first job in Korea was working at a hagwon. I came to Korea totally naïve and I just thought t...

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Funny Anecdote: Pen-tea

In my writing class the students were supposed to brainstorm about disturbing trends in Korea and I said that Black Bean Tea was a disturbing trend. Then I went on to expound on the ghastliness of corn tea (it tastes like soggy...

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Third drafts and fourth

I’m going to get my students to rewrite their 2nd drafts because they don’t really improve their first beyond superficial grammatical fixes. I’m going to also have them rewrite another student’s paper in...

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MacGyvering a Lesson

Here’s an article that I wrote for a magazine. MacGyvering a Lesson It’s Sunday night. You are staring up at the ceiling realizing that tomorrow you are going to be the shepherd of howling hooligans yelling “T...

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Analyze your dreams!

Analyze your dreams! I am teaching symbolic analysis this term at my hagwon. Here’s a list of different symbols that could be related to dreams. I feel that if I can teach kids the concept of symbols then they’ll be...

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Jack Palance

Jack Palance was one of the great movie heavies of the 1950s, when he was often cast as a sinister villain in film noirs, westerns and melodramas. His impressive debut in 1950′s Panic in the Streets was followed by Oscar-...

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Boll Weevil

boll weeviln. 1. A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle (Anthonomus grandis) of Mexico and the southern United States, having adults that puncture cotton buds and larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls. 2. Informal. A cons...

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The Secret Life of Bees

“The people called her Our Lady of Chains. They called that not bcause she wore chains…” “Not because she wore chains,” the Daughters chanted. “They called her Our Lady of Chains because she ...

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