Some kind soul has taken some of the videos off the elementary school CD-ROMs and uploaded them for the world to enjoy. I had forgotten just . . . how . . . brutal these are. I can't pick a favorite, nor do I want to, but I guess I'll embed just one:
Maybe one more.
I just pooped my pants. Go watch them all, and understand that we're required to teach this bullshit in elementary school as part of the government curriculum. The last one on the page teaches students how to say "he has a long hair," whatever the fuck that means. These videos are paired with this teachers' guide for a helluva one-two combo of ignorance. HT to Ms. Parker in Korea for the link and for making me relive 2006.
Oh, and I'll wire 20,000 won to whomever uploads the blackface skit on the Grade 6 CD-ROM.
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It's bad enough that I have spent 6 classes in a row today buried under this crap, now I have to see it on my favourite Jeollanam-do flavoured blog too!
The videos? Not so bad in the long run. Its the way my "co-teacher" goes about trying to "Teach" them.
My personal favourite is when she mutes the video and gets the kids to say the lines...she prefaces this with the phrase "Now lets speak without sound" !
Think about it...How does one speak...without sound.
I know, these Koreans and their inability to use an article like "the" correctly (as in let's speak without THE sound.")
Cracks me up every time.
Except really I'm crying on the inside.
...laughing myself silly...
If this is true then I missed a lot about teaching in Korea. And why do others not showing what is going on. I am teaching German, and it is very hard for me to figure out what is going on in teaching foreign languages in Korea.
I just watched the "cutting bagel" clip yesterday during my December review of everything we learned.
Tony's a real pussy if he can't do it alone.
Julie 'playing' the violin is a golden classic. And Kevin is probably my favorite character of the bunch. He's so damn serious. what's this about 6th grade blackface? which lesson, pray tell?
I knew they were bad when I had to teach them, but they're like a million times worse seeing them out of context.
The blackface is Grade 6, Lesson 1, the claymation movie for section 4. The students were doing a fashion show on the theme of "where are you from?" One girl comes out as a Korean with hanbok, another girl comes out as an American in a cowboy outfit, and another girl comes out as an Ugandan, with an animal print one-piece and a black-painted face. Click the link and scroll down that "negro problem" post to see a screen capture.
What do you mean, Jens-Olaf?
Love your blog, by the way.
A friend of mine has ripped the mpegs from her CDs at school and transferred them to her home computer so that she can upload them, I think on Facebook....
Thank you so much for these!
These things make me want to wear earplugs when I hear them in class.
- Driftingfocus
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