Archive for May 2009
Class systems in Australia, boutique beers and Harry’s Cafe de Wheels
Posted by: hojunara on: May 30, 2009
The pictures say it all. We finally visited Harry’s! There’s not really a better way to finish your week than tucking into a Tiger (that’s a meat pie with mushy peas, mashed potato and gravy on top). Even better, it was the first time everyone in class had eaten a pie. For those of you [...]
Mia says hi, Naoko says bye! / Present Perfect + Past Simple
Posted by: hojunara on: May 28, 2009
Just received these photos from Mia yesterday – good to have some memories from this great class
Need to find out where I can get a Kids Bowling for College jumper too!
On a sadder note, it’s Naoko’s last class tomorrow. She spent something like four months in this class and even if you don’t [...]
Man sells life on Ebay
Posted by: hojunara on: May 26, 2009
Here’s the article we read in class and the accompanying audio.
The big question: how much is your life worth?
How much would you sell your friends for?
I think we all struggled to decide how much the memories and emotional attachments we have with our friends are actually worth. When we did decide, they were certainly worth [...]
Ambitions
Posted by: hojunara on: May 26, 2009
Today we discussed ambitions – what did you want to do as a child? what are your ambitions now? are they realistic?
Naoko wanted to be a cake-shop assistant when she was a child! Answers like that are part of the reason we explore these topics.
We watched the above video in class [...]
Meat pies and sausage rolls
Posted by: hojunara on: May 26, 2009
On the topic of health, it’s time to highlight some of the reasons for the obesity epidemic in Australia. We love to eat shit unhealthy food. Above is the famous ‘Tiger’ meat pie from Harry’s Cafe de Wheels in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Woolloomooloo. Not content with meat inside the pie, they’ve stacked mushy peas, [...]
Hojunara English
- What ages/birthdays are important in your culture?Following on from the previous lesson, we talked about the best party you’ve ever been to Jason told us about a house party he went to last weekend and touched on an interesting point – parties in Australia are very different to those in South Korea In South Korea parties are usually at a restaurant or a club, [...]
- What makes a good party?TODAY: article and audio THIS TOPIC HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED HERE Jason set the tone for today’s lesson by telling us about a party he went to on the weekend where a stripper had been hired – lucky your girlfriend wasn’t there! We then watched the video below of Corey Worthington, who became famous in 2007/2008 for his [...]
- Tourist Habits revisitedTHIS HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED BY ANOTHER CLASS HERE TODAY: article and audio So what are tourists, in this case, Korean tourists, like? Are they clean or messy? Stylish or unstylish? Polite or rude? Do they try to speak the local language and try the local cuisine (local food)? Jason thought that Koreans were messy/untidy and littered alot. [...]
- Parenting – how would you teach your children?TODAY: article and audio We’ve discussed what we would like to teach our children, but how would we like our children taught? We outlined private schools, public schools, religion-based schools and home-schooling. Included in this are same-sex/single sex and ‘co-ed’ (boys and girls) schools. What type of school do you attend? Did/Does a sam […]
- Parenting – what would you teach your children?For homework we were asked ‘what two things would you teach your children?’ So, what are the two most important things you would teach them? Yosuke suggested teaching manners and encouraging them to be sociable. After all, it’s not what you know, but who you know! Kyoung Suk suggested something slightly different: diligence and love. What i […]
- Parenting: how would you discipline your child?TODAY: audio and article It seems like people are always complaining about how different today’s youth/Generation Y are. The world is changing and so are our children, yet many parts of society are not changing with them. In Britain this has become a big problem – so much that British schools are thinking of fining parents or sending [...]
- Free hugs and $1 kissesTODAY: audio and article Yes, it was Tamami’s last day, but we ended the week on a positive – free hugs and $1 kisses. Not to mention Jason and his girlfriend celebrated their 500 day anniversary. Congratulations! It began with us discussing how to show emotion in your country. In Korea and Japan we all agreed that people [...]
- What?! Homeless people make more than we do??TODAY: audio and article Yes, it’s true. Homeless man Ken Johnson earns up to $400 a day, just sitting outside Myer about a block from here. That’s potentially $2000 a week. Even on a bad day he reckons he will make $175 – $220. That’s a good day for just about any of our students! Could [...]
- PLACES TO VISIT – Bertoni Casalinga and Uchi LoungeTamami can’t stop talking about this place, so I thought I might as well mention Bertoni Casalinga , which serves a heap of delicious Italian food on Kent St in the CBD. I’ll have to try one of those paninis Tamomi View Larger Map Uchi Lounge happens to be where one of [...]
- Is class an issue in Australia?THIS TOPIC HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED HERE Article and Audio With Andrew and Hans on Friday night we looked into the attitudes Australian’s adopt when they’re overseas. Click the link above for a more in depth look at a discussion of Australian stereotypes including ‘bogans’ and ‘mullets’ – that’s a fine example i […]
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