PEZ PEZ PEZ

As some of you have noticed, there are more and more small characters appearing infront of the television in our classroom everyday. They are called PEZ candy dispensers. If you'd like to learn more about them, visit their website at

www.pez.com

That company has been making PEZ machines since the late 1950s!!!

CLICK HERE to see a PEZ machine worth more than $450.00 USD!!

Korean Population

I am always amazed at how many people don't know how many people live in Korea.

As we talked about in culture class today, there are about 48 million people in South Korea. My source is the Korea National Statistical Office (http://www.nso.go.kr/eng/).

Click on the image to the left to see a larger and clearer image.

There is lots of other information on the site.

Check it out...

Happy Chu-seok

Hello everyone,

Have a safe and happy Chu-seok.

See you again on Tuesday.

Hello everyone,

This might be a little late, but you know what they say; better late than never.

Here is some more information about this week's movie:

• Tom Hanks's wife, Rita Wilson, saw the play and recommended that her husband produce a movie version. In an interview with the German magazine "Cinema", Nia Vardalos mentioned, that she hung up when Hanks called, because she didn't believe it was really him.
• Nia Vardalos's real-life husband, Ian Gomez, plays Ian's best friend, Mike.

Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments about the movie in the COMMENTS section.

World's Tallest Free-standing Structure

Hello everyone...

Lots of things to talk about from today's classes.

From culture class, here's my source for calling the CN Tower the world's tallest free-standing structure. Click on the thumbnail image to see the full-size picture.



The original source of the information was at http://www.skyscraperpage.com/

Check it out and let me know what you think...

PC Language

Hello everyone! I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend!

Here is some more information about PC language:

Political correctness is a term generally used to disparage efforts to
raise awareness about and eliminate social and political biases in language and
other forms of representation. The term also appears in the adjectival form
politically correct (often abbreviated PC). While it frequently refers to a
linguistic phenomenon, it is also extended to cover political ideology and
behavior

I took this informaiton from Wikipedia. To read the complete article, CLICK HERE

If you've never heard of Wikipedia, you should check it out. It's a very interesting project. Read more about it HERE (in English) or HERE (in Korean)

Don't forget to leave your comments about PC language by clicking on the COMMENTS link near the end of this message.

Analyze that

What did everyone think of the movie today? Unfortunately, I didn't have time to watch it, but I've seen it before.

Here's some more information about the movie:

Directed by: Harold Ramis

Writing credits: Kenneth Lonergan & Peter Tolan

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Plot Outline: Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.

Cast overview:
Robert De Niro: Paul Vitti
Billy Crystal: Dr. Ben Sobel
Lisa Kudrow : Laura Sobel
Joe Viterelli: Jelly

If you'd like to find out information about movies, the best site I can recommend is the 'Internet Movie Data Base'. www.imdb.com

If you like movies, and you'd like to learn more about your favorite movies, visit www.imdb.com It even has information about lots of Korean movies like: Old Boy, Swiri, JSA and others.

Best of all, the site is free and doesn't require any registration or log-in!

Click the COMMENTS link to leave your comments about this movie, or, if you didn't see the movie, to leave your comments about movies in general...

Enjoy

Welcome to my KNUE Blog

Hello everyone!

Welcome to KNUE's Intensive English Teacher Training Program!

During the next six months I will be using this Blog, the KNUE pages on my homepage, and my KNUE discussion board to communicate with trainees.

The success of these online class supplements depends on you. Please play an active role in contributing to these online environments by not only visiting often, but also by posting often.

This blog will be used mainly to expand on topics that came up during class, but that we did not have enough time to discuss fully in class. It is very easy to post your comments on this blog, just click on the COMMENTS link at the end of the post.

Why don't you try it now and get started on making your contributions to this blog. Click on the COMMENTS link at the end of this post and leave a short comment introducing yourself.