Friday 9a English Conversation II Groups (English Literature) – 2nd 1/2 of the Semester
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) (more…)
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) (more…)
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!
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:
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. (more…)
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:
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!