Students Evaluate the Midterm Speech Students from Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea, report about their experiences writing and presenting a speech about their lives in front of their classmates for the midterm exam. -“Excellent! I love the style of this class. We never had any anxiety about the mid-term. Thank you, teacher. I’ll miss you!” … Continue reading
GREAT TEACHINGS, A life story by Yoo Bin Heo Hello, everyone. My name is Yoo Bin Heo. I’m a freshman at Kookmin University and my major is Public Administration. I’m really glad to meet all of you in this class. Today, I’d like to talk to you about a very special teacher who meant a … Continue reading
As a former lecturer in the General Education Dept at Kookmin University, I taught conversational English, which in my courses included speech writing, presentation skills and public speaking, as well as an out-of-class real-life assignment interviewing foreigners. Over the course of my 6 years at KMU, I collected hundreds of life stories from my students. … Continue reading
I stayed close to home today, strolling just a few blocks up and back. The first thing I noticed was that some of the houses and shops are sporting Halloween decorations. I suppose so. It’s the 19th of October, after all. This witch caught my eye, and I went back to get a shot of … Continue reading
Introduction: Over the years of teaching university students in Korea, I realized one of the best ways to get them over their fears of speaking English was to send them out to the street to meet real people. It was always the scariest assignment, but the one with the most enthusiastic response after the fact. … Continue reading
The hospital CHU in Liege at first glance might not impress. After all, it’s not a beautiful place, looking from most angles more like a war-time garrison, abandonned after the troops went home~ a lot of concrete and not much else. But the camera has a keen eye~ especially adept at routing out the less … Continue reading
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