English News Korea #76 - Computers

Greetings. How's it going? The weather has been getting pretty hot and even a bit humid. I'm enjoying it because I can exercise outdoors a bit more. I also just feel much better when the weather is nice, don't you?

This week I've made a Computers Edition. I have been using computers for more than 30 years and I'm pretty good with them. I expected students in the 2020s to be even better than me, what with their access to smartphones and the internet but no. Shockingly, I'm finding they're only good at usings the apps and sites they use in their daily lives and somehow don't know much about computers at all. The scope of their knowledge is much smaller than I had expected.

Anyway, I hope you all have a great week!

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here

English News Korea #75 - School

Hello again everyone. How have you been? Does anyone read this even or am I just talking to myself? I'm messing with the format again this week as I search for the perfect formula. I've made 6 stories, taken out the word list and added in a puzzle and a practice dialog. Eventually I'll get the formula right and everyone will love this and acknowledge my brilliance but for now... eh. It's free, you takes what you gets :)

Have a great week!

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here

English News Korea #74 - Family

Right! Another 2 weeks have flown by and I've prepared another massive edition of ENK. There were a ton of mistakes last week and I hope I've avoided most of them this week. It's tough doing all this by myself. I continue to believe in the potential of my students. I've been teaching English here for almost 20 years and one thing that hasn't changed is that I think a lot of students don't do well because they're just not given the chance to. I hope this can at least provide them with something, even if it isn't much. I'm also pretty sure that these "worksheets" of mine are only going to be used by whoever my current students are when I'm there to give them time to practice and ensure they do. Hopefully in the future I can make them so incredibly awesome that everyone will get on board with my vision and start using them themselves. But the chances of that... heh :)

This week I'm talking about family. May is Family Month in Korea. There's Children's Day, Parent's Day, Teachers' Day and a few more. Children's Day is actually a public holiday here which is fantastic. They also have a combined Parents' Day as opposed to the separate Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day that I'm used to. Hope you all have a good week!

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here

English News Korea #73 - 3D Printing

Phew. A big update this week. First off, I'm going to be publishing these every two weeks now. Why? Because I've decided to increase the number of articles in each edition from five to seven and incorporate the spelling test I give for my students into the paper. So yes, that means the article levels are now between one and seven. Level one is a bit easier than the old level one and level seven is a bit harder than the old level five. I'm also going to include a sort of puzzle each week. This week's one is fairly easy to start with, but can you find the mistake?

This week I'm talking about one of my favourite hobbies, namely 3D printing. I have been designing and 3D printing objects for almost two years now and I'm constantly surprised how useful the hobby can be. Join me and learn a little more about 3D printing.

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here