Group #1:

Chris (Ryu Duk Hee)

Seo Hyeun Ryeung

Han Bo-hwa

Kwon

Group #2:

Carmen (Yoojil)

Holy (Lim Jae Heyon)

Wuk (Moon Tae Wuk)

Moo (Lee Sung-soo) » Continue reading “Friday 9a English Conversation II Groups (English Literature) – 2nd 1/2 of the Semester”

Since Week 7 was the midterm, this will be week 8′s assignment.

Please surf the Internet to Facebook at www.facebook.com Sign up for an account and connect with me at professorbrandon@gmail.com  Just search for my email address.

After connecting, I’d like you to also connect with other students from your class.  Go ahead and ask for their email address they will use to sign up for the account and start building a small network of friends from class.  Continue beyond the class and also start connecting with other foreigners as well.  Get to know them.

Use the applications as well on Facebook and get familiar with the website!

Group #1:

• Banny
• Ji-mee
• Joon
• Edge

Group #2:

• TOP
• Ludia
• Ricki
• Jin » Continue reading “Monday 9a English Conversation II Groups (Maritime Law) – 2nd 1/2 of the Semester”

Group #1:

• Julie
• Wanda
• Young
• Todd

Group #2:

• Aslan
• Paul (Lee JuWon)
• Woo
• Yuni » Continue reading “Monday 11a English Conversation II Groups (Shipping Management) – 2nd 1/2 of the Semester”

If you are interested, every Friday we have an “Open Studio” at the radio station.  Please email our show’s writer Jiwook Jang at j7j7w7@nate.com or j7j7w7@gmail.com and he will provide you with details on how to get to the station.  You should probably provide your cell phone number if you email later than Wednesday of the week the show occurs.

Our website is http://befm.or.kr if you would like to learn a little about the station before coming. 

Students who participate will get extra credit added to their participation grade.  Remember “practice, practice, practice!”

Students -

Best wishes during your midterm week!

Following, you will see what you should be prepared to answer on the midterm:

• What must you do when emailing anyone you do not know?
• Names of the first 10 units.  Provide an example for each unit.
• Small talk: be able to start/finish and also provide other questions and answers during a “small talk” conversation
• Name 3 websites which can help your English.  Explain what each of the websites do.
• How do you improve your English (or any language) the best?  (Hint: 3 words)
  • Provide 3 examples of how you improve your English.
• What are Brandon’s class rules?
• What is the grade composition made up of?
• What does ‘R’ stand for in the acronym ‘ER’?  What does Brandon think should be the definition of ‘R’ in the acronym?  What are possible words that the ‘E’ represents in the same acronym and may help South Korea moving forward (English, Education, Experience, Ethics, Environment, Economy, Efficiency, Effectiveness)
  • Give an example of how Relationships may help you in your life or how they have helped others in their lives.
• Tell me about 3 other students in the class in significant detail
  • Tell me the English and Korean names of 7 others in your class

Write up the dialogue that was created in the class activity “Build a Story/Dialogue.” In essence, transcribe it to your blog and let everyone know in your group and myself that it was published.

Task: Describe a leisure activity to your fellow group members

1) Meet your groups & present either a) a leisure activity you enjoy doing or b) give details and information about a recreational facility you know about from your neighborhood or used at Korea Maritime University
2) Take notes on what your other group members say
3) Transcribe the details of each of the members’ leisure activity/recreational facility details onto your blog

One of the students submitted the following report regarding cell phone culture in two countries: Korea and Japan.  This student did a good job, but I decided to post their homework here along with my suggestions for corrects.  The lines followed by the “O:” are the original report lines.  My corrections follow the “C:” in the following:

O: Almost korean have a cell phone.

C: Almost every Korean has a cell phone.

O: Wherever public spaces, there are many people using phone.

C: In all public spaces, there are many people using these wireless phones.

O: As korea phone using rate is too high, many problem usually happen.

C: Since Korea’s phone usage rate is extremely high, there are many problems as a result.

O: These days, school principal claim that student using phone is prohibited.

C: These days, school principals have prohibited the use of cell phones in school.

O: And, many public campaign suggest that we set up manner mode phone in subway and bus etc.

C: Moreover, there are many public campaigns suggesting that we set our phones to the “manner mode” when using public transportation like subways or buses.

O: Compare with other country, our cell phone etiquette quality is very low.

C: Compared with other countries, there are very few rules regarding cell phone etiquette. » Continue reading “KMU English Conversation II Week 4 Homework: Example & Corrections”

Compare two different cellular phone cultures.

Research how cell phones are used in a foreign country and compare it to Korea.  You will probably need to research data on Korean cell phone culture as well.  For example, this article from MSNBC details cell phone activity in Korea.

Detail the differences like:

• the number of cell phone users in both countries
• analyze the “texting” between the two counries
• average cell phone usage & bills in both countries
• cell phone etiquette
• other forms of communication other than cell phones

After you’ve completed your 350 words or more report/analysis, please post it up to your website/blog.  After you upload it to your blog/website, please email both your team members and me the blog/website url/address.

Happy Chuseok Everyone!