November 13, 2005

Nice sample teacher's resume

So in order to take the new position I've been offered with SMU TESOL, I need to add a date to my CV. I wasn't sure where to put the date so I serached for example resmes. This one doesn't have a date, but it sure looks nice.

Posted by James Trotta at 1:19 PM | Comments (0)

November 9, 2005

American football soccer and Thanksgiving culture

I've prepared a reading for my students on soccer and football and their roles in American culture. The focus is football's popularity thanks to being "macho" and soccer's image as a "girl's sport".

For American football I'm using excerpts from this article written by a professional football player recalling football and Thanksgiving from his childhood. (http://www.nfl.com/features/thanksgiving/jim_kelly)

For soccer I'm using excerpts from an article from a British guy that focuses too much on World politics for my purposes. I've taken the ecerpts that stick to my desired focus on sports culture. (http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20020602)

Posted by James Trotta at 3:52 PM | Comments (0)

November 5, 2005

Korean / American roleplays

A couple more intercultural communication roleplays, these btween a Korean and an American in a business context. However the roleplays are appropriate outside of business English clases as I mself used them with my college students:

Eating in Korea
Personal questions

Posted by James Trotta at 7:50 AM | Comments (0)

New intercultural roleplay

Here is one of the roleplay situations that my students voted on for their midterm exam: Korean woman's and Canadian man's first date.

I learned that in Korean culture the man generally pays for dinner on the first date while he woman buys coffee after the date. In North America while Korean style would not be considered unusual, it's more common to go dutch (each person paying his/her share).

Posted by James Trotta at 6:09 AM | Comments (0)
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