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

English News Korea #72 - Gaming

Good morning again. Have you been doing well? This week I'm talking about gaming. When I was young it wasn't nearly as easy to play games at home as it is now, so I often ended up going to play so-called "arcade games" like Street Fighter II. I ended up spending a lot of time and money on arcade games. These days you're pretty spoiled for choice when it comes to gaming. You can play games on your phone at home, on the bus or anywhere you want really. The games are also much more detailed than the games I use to play!

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here

English News Korea #71 - Korean Money

Hello everyone? It was a pretty tiring week last week. I'm trying some (completely optional) Saturday classes to increase the students' exposure to English but they're tougher than I imagined and quite stressful. But I don't give up at these sorts of challenges, so I'm looking forward to trying again this Saturday :)

This week I've written about Korean money or currency. In my research I found many interesting facts about the bank notes and coins that I wanted to share. I hope you all have a great week this week!

Here is this week's edition:

You can download the PDF here