My favorite soccer player; Koo Ja-Cheol

My favorite soccer player is Koo Ja-Cheol, the 23 year-old midfielder who has been a star since his teenage years, from Korea’s U-18, U-20, and finally the U-23 national team, where he served as the team captain. The eighth youngest Korean player to ever debut with the senior national team (in 2008 vs China), Koo’s rapid ascension culminated in the 2011 Asian Cup, where he was the Golden Boot award winner (given to the player with most goals scored), scoring 5 goals to go along with 3 assists.
Koo likes to go shopping in his spare time in Germany. He is currently the honorary ambassador for The Republic of Korea Air Force. Koo is also a close friend with his teammate Ki Sung-Yueng, and they like to display their friendly, humorous conversations on Twitter. Ki revealed on the Korean TV show "Healing Camp" that Koo has a nickname called "Koogeulgeorim" or 구글거림 in Korean because of his sometimes goofy way of talking.

with his best friend, Ki Sung-Yeung




Ki sung yueng is widely regarded as one of the top young South Korean football prospects. His playing style has earned him the title of the "Korean Steven Gerrard".
Ki likes to stay in touch with fellow Korean football players using Twitter. He is close friends with Koo Ja-Cheol and Lee Chung-Yong.

http://southkoreansoccer.com/player-profile-koo-ja-cheol/

week4-2) Class Activities

•Learn English Pod (British Council)

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-podcasts

RSS= Really Simple Syndication

먼지가되어-로이킴&정준영

Oasis - Wonderwall;

Oasis - Wonderwall

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

and all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

Today was gonna be the day?
But they'll never throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you're not to do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

And all the roads that lead to you were winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
I don't know how

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

I Said maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me

week4-1) Class Activities

1.Two listening techniques: top-down vs. bottom-up
     Top=Basic =Topics= Meaning
     Down                      =Form (linguistic elements- vowels, consonants, words, sentences)

2.Online tools and resources for listening

• Randall's cyber listening lab http://www.esl-lab.com/
• Ello.org http://www.elllo.org/
• Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/
• Manything's listening activities http://www.manythings.org/e/listening.html
• We are New York" English Online for Immigrant Adults by Hillary Gardner and Moira Taylor (9 movie episodes with maerials, lesson plans and handouts)

• Famous Speeches http://www.history.com/speeches
• TED http://www.ted.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/nliakos/ideas-worth-spreading-enhancing-language-skills-with-ted
• Youtube http://www.youtube.com
• YouTube Across the Curriculumby Rus Wilson & Davis Randall (How to use annotations and VLC)
• A Spotlight on Short YouTube Screening RoomFilms and Methodology by Harry Harris (chestnut tree, reach, sebastian's voodoo, Tired city-- story guessin, vocab activity, describing etc.)

• Ted Blog http://blog.ted.com/
• Adam Maxwell's Fiction Lounge http://www.adammaxwell.com/index.php?
• Storynory (Audio Stories for Kids) http://storynory.com/?
• CNN Student News http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/?iref=allsearch?
• iTune U

            1. Berkeley http://itunes.berkeley.edu/?
           2. Oxford http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/?
           3. Stanford http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/??
           4. Harvard Extension http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/?

• ESL Pod http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html??
• Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/?
• American English Pronuncication Podcast http://www.pronuncian.com/Podcast.aspx?
• KIds Podcast List http://kids.podcast.com/?  
• Mabry Middle School Podcast http://mabryonline.org/podcasts/?
• Music Podcast List http://music.podcast.com/?

3.Group Review- [Manything's listening activities]
      http://www.manythings.org/e/listening.html

  

   

week 4-1) Discussion Questions 4

• Explain the two listening techniques: top-down vs. bottom-up and tell us when you employ each technique for what purpose.

 Just like reading, in listening, there are also two simultaneous and complementary ways of processing a text. In top-down processing, learners use their prior knowledge to make predictions about the text. In bottom-up processing, learners rely on their linguistic knowledge to recognize linguistic elements -- vowels, consonants, words, sentences to do the construction of meaning.

Second-language listeners often revert to their knowledge of the topic and situation when faced with unfamiliar vocabulary or structures, so using top-down processing to compensate for difficulties in bottom-up processing. On the other hand, if a listener is unable to understand anything of what she hears, she will not even be able to establish the topic of conversation, so top-down processing will also be very limited.

I usually employ top-down techniques-Listening news, weather forecast, sports report, announcement, etc. on the radio/ Attending a lesson or seminar. I use bottom-up-processing Receiving instructions on how to do something, get somewhere/ Chatting at a party or other social gathering

• What type of listening materials do you think good for top-down or bottom-up strategies? Review the listening materials and select some for each.

I think 'Listening to the News' is a good activity for top-down listening. A very useful starting point when students are developing listening skills for academic study is with the news. It could be Radios or the BBC World Service, but it could also be another radio station. The BBC provides excellent online news programmes, for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/news.There is also a really good website which contains interactive exercises on recent news stories at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com.  in these websites, students can listen various news or lessons and get opportunities for live interaction.

If students try to start by making their listening to the news into a routine, they can improve their English listening skills. - listen to the same broadcast each and every day, at the same time. Just listen to a few minutes at first, and gradually extend listening as students feel they are getting better and more experienced.

• What is podcasting? Discuss the benefits of doing podcasting for L2 learners.

 A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players.
There are some benefits of doing podcasting for L2 learners.Teachers can provide more various interesting and authentic materials.(not only from the textbook). Also students who are in more higher level can use more difficult materials, or additional tasks using podcasting.

week 3-2) Class Activities

Corpus Exercise 1

Look up the following transitive verbs in the dictionary. What patterns in objectives do you find?

cause+objective

provide+objective

Corpus Exercise 2


The following two words have a similar meaning. Compare them from both a dictionary and BNC concordance. The two words which have simillar meanings.

produce vs. yield

Yield- usually positive and neutral objects, formally use (data, survey findings, officially academic,etc.)

arise vs. occur

Arise-negative subject/ usewith the kind of language

 Occur- neutral

Corpus Exercise 3:sentence Anagram 

 1) Things much can't worse get.
Things can’t get much worse.


2) What we to there are supposed time get?
What time are we supposed to get there?


3) I you the very weren't happy impression got.
I got the impression you weren’t very happy.

4) We've we as as the for can far moment gotWe’ve got the moment as far as we can .


5) we be to don't anywhere seem getting.
We don’t seem to be getting anywhere.    





Online Book 

 http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

'찾기 (Ctrl+f) ' You can provide some examples to your students.



Concordance

http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/

Movie Corpus (movie script)

http://www.simplyscripts.com/