This is the page for: Understanding English: Listening and Speaking 1 (Night)
(Course-related content will appear here in reverse chronological order: the newest things at the top of the page, and older posts toward the bottom.)
Grades Uploaded, and Next Semester
Hi there!
Grades for this class have been uploaded. If you have any inquiries about your grade, please first read this page for more information on the handling of grading disputes before contacting me.
Also, if you’re curious about courses I’ll be teaching next semester (Fall 2008), there’s a list on the front page of this site. Have a look and see if anything appeals to you: there are several courses focused on creative work, as well as a literature course.
Have a good summer!
Final Exam Files & PDF
Hi there!
Here’s the PDF file for you to use in your self-evaluation. Remember, you’re evaluating your performance on this exam. However, you can also write on the back how you think you did generally, if you like.
The official deadline for submitting your self-evaluation paper to my mailbox (Dasol Gwan, Room #205) is still 6:00pm Thursday, June 19th. However, if the slight delay caused you any inconvenience, I could extend that until later Thursday evening.
Here are the video files for your oral exams from earlier this evening:
- Sang Woon & Su Jin
- Saem & Su Hee
- Saem & Jeong Hee
- Han Kyu & Ki Wook
- Jeong Myeong & Hye Jung
- Yong Heon & So Ra (Part1, Part 2)
The videos will be deleted after nobody downloads them for a month, so they should be long gone by the time next semester comes around. Therefore, if you want the video, please keep it on your computer!
Coming!
Apologies, everyone, I had some problems with my computer, but the files are coming now! They should all be online by midnight tonight.
If this has caused any inconvenience and will prevent you from submitting your self-evaluation on time, let me know.
Regarding Your Final Exam
Hi everyone. Here are some thoughts on your final exam:
- My office is N223. The exam will be at my office, not in our classroom. Please come five minutes early with your whole group. The exam is on Tuesday, June 17th, during our regular classtime, with the three groups beginning at 6:55pm, 7:15pm, and 7:35pm.
- We will quickly assign partners and each exam will be approximately 10 minutes in total, from the moment you walk into my office until you leave.
- You will talk about two topics: one will be randomly chosen from your group’s list of topics, and the other will be this question:What have you learned in this class?
- Please don’t be late. Your group members are depending on you to get their exam done, and I will not be understanding of late arrivals.
I don’t know which group is #1, #2, or #3. I hope you remember! Anyway, here are the topics for the groups (for the two who have emailed me, anyway).
Sam, Sanghun, Su jin, Geum Hee
- the best or worst teacher
- stereotypes
- family effect
- relationship – true friends.
Seo jung hee, Yeo ki wook, Lee han kyu, Yoo saem
- travel
- music
- movies
- stress
If you’re a member of the third group, please email me your list!
Group #3: So-ra Jo, Jeong-myung Lee, Hye-jeong Lim, and Yong-heon Kim
- Travel
- Movies
- Family affect
- Man & woman change
Announcement for Next Semester
Interested in Writing a Graphic Novel?
In Fall semester 2008, there will be a special course offered under the name Multimedia English Education and taught by Gord Sellar. In fact, this course will consist of planning, outlining, writing, and completely creating a graphic novel – that is, a novel-length and novel-quality “comic book� which will subsequently be published online. (Print publication might be sought, depending on the outcome of the project.)
Students who are interested in a hands-on project in which they can creatively use and develop their English skills are encouraged to consider this course. You needn’t be an “artist,� although talented artists are certainly welcome.
For more information, please contact me.
New Schedule for the Next Few Weeks!
Hi there! I was reminded that I’d double-scheduled our next class, so I have changed the schedule! Here is the new schedule, and see below for information about preparations for next class!
29 May: discussion of interview videos
3 June: So Ra Jo
5 June: Jung Myeong Lee, followed by Saem Yoo
10 June: Su-Hee Cho,
12 June: Yong Heon Kim, followed by Soo Jin Kim
For May 29th, here are the preparations you need to make:
- Be ready to talk about the following:
- What was it like giving your interview?
- How did you feel asking the questions you asked?
- How do you think the other person felt answering those questions? Did she or he show his or her real feelings in words, expressions, or some other way?
- Prepare a couple of questions for classmates, while watching the video. They can have any relation to the video topic, but the question should be properly structured (in terms of grammar), simple, and easy to understand. The question should not be a yes-no question, but instead offer the other person a chance to talk about something a little deeply!
Your Interviews
Your interviews are up on Youtube!
Please take a look at them, and we’ll be discussing them in class on May 28th. Until, enjoy the University Festival!
Your MP3
Well, your exam is done!
Here’s an MP3 of it. Listen to yourself — to everyone, if you like — and then fill out the papers you can download from here.
Remember to check the schedule about your discussion-leading homework. The next discussion is coming up, and your discussion will be coming sooner or later! Start thinking about a topic and talk to me if you’re not sure. I’ll have some homework for you next week, so enjoy your weekend off! And don’t forget, you need to hand in your evaluation papers for Sang Woon’s discussion. The papers are available here.
The Discussion Feedback Papers
Note: this is NOT for Midterm exams. For Midterm exam evaluation papers, please check here.
For Discussion Feedback sessions, we will use the following papers for feedback. Please make sure to print some up for yourself, and makes sure to bring them to class every time we have a discussion. (You’ll need extras, actually, for friends who run out.)
If you’re NOT leading, you need to print out this paper:
Student Feedback Sheet (PDF): You’ll be using this sheet to assign a grade to your groups’ leaders, to help your group decide on a feedback rating.
IF you ARE leading, you’ll need to print out these sheets:
Leader Feedback Sheets (PDF): You’ll be using the first sheet to give a feedback grade to your group(s) and, on the back, to rank students who were exceptionally good participators, or exceptionally bad ones. You’ll be using the second sheet to evaluate your own discussion leading-abilities.
As with all feedback, comments are important. If you don’t make comments, you’re not taking the feedback seriously enough, and will lose marks.
Midterm Exam Self-Evaluation Paper
This week, you’ll be having your midterm exam. After the exam, I’ll be asking you to fill out both of these papers for the exam:
Conversation Exam (PDF): a page for you to evaluate yourself in terms of your performance during the conversation exam, as well as to evaluate your participation in the past 7 weeks of class. Please make sure you include plenty of comments; without them, you’ll lose a grade point for not taking the exam seriously!
and
Project Evaluation (PDF): this is the normal group project evaluation paper. Make sure you list all the members in your group besides yourself. (Your self-evaluation is on the other paper.) This will help me to know how hard your group members worked, and who you think did the best during the exam. Again, please include comments unless you want to risk losing marks for not taking the exam seriously!
Everyone, good luck on your presentations!