My article published in a newspaper!

Today I was published for the first time in a Korean newspaper!!  Today is Korea’s national day of independence and MY article was published in a leading newspaper, the Korea Times.  Enjoy 

Creative Writing Exercise

This week at Avalon I asked my students to look at a page with four images on it and write a story using them.  It was a lot of fun doing it Here are the images!  Here too is an example of a story that I wrote using one set of images and here’s a Growing Student Dictionary specifically for Korean students.  I had fun making this and I’d like to use it later for a short story to publish.

헤이든 아발론 녹지원B Writing Class

Hi everyone (안녕하세요!).  It was nice to meet you all today.  반가왔어요.  This week’s homework is you need to write an Independent essay, where you give your opinion about a question.  This week’s question is:  “Girls are better at boys in learning English.  Do you agree or disagree?” 

You need to write 150-200 words and the flow of your writing should have:

 

* Main idea (thesis) with a hook – This is your introduction, where you state what you think and why. You should spend 5 minutes on this. 

* 2-3 supporting arguments, with supporting evidence and personal examples.  You should spend 9 minutes on this. 

* Conclusion – here you re-state your introduction, but using different words and possibly different grammar.  You should spent 5 minutes on this. 

 

Edit and correct your essay.  You should spend 1 minute on this.  Please email me your answer during the week to my email address, haydnenglish@yahoo.com

Thanks guys!  수고했어!

Formal and Informal Letter/ Email Writing

To those of you who were here for last Friday’s class, here are last Friday’s formal and informal letter/email writing examples. 

Cheers.

Afternoon Class – Problems and Dilemmas

To my afternoon class,

Here is the problem story that was planned by Marco’s group.  I chose this story because it was very cimilar to the other group and it had more information.  Very good job!  I didn’t have to change anything   I thought it was very nice 

Haydn.

Afternoon Class – Create Your Own Country

To the sugar mamas and sugar daddies in my afternoon class – your writing this afternoon was fantastic!  You worked well together to make your countries. 

I must be honest: my favourite was Group 2’s Haydnland.  I think it’s the best utopia!  Group 1, I thought your writing was great and I liked how you used the words ‘cultural legends’ and ‘folklore’.  Here are the countries.  They’re very funny    Good work!

Brainstorming Plan

Hi everybody!  Here is a soft copy of the Brainstorming Plan that we talked about in class today.  I will post also an example of some writing where a Brainstorm Plan was first used.  You can print off the Brainstorm Plan or save it for later.  Very nice!