Favourites.

This is my little Jeanie, with her brother. She is a sweetheart, very smart girl. Yes one of my favourites.

My Chinese children

These are just some of my Chinese students at my training centre. We have a total of 105 boys and girl that study with me.

Here they are again, this time with me as well.

By the way boys aren't they gorgeous girls.
They are very very pretty girls and they love learning English.
They were also very upset with the way we are destroying the Earth. look at the sign behind them.

My greatest Kids

I love these guys, they are so, great.
It was my first class ever with Korean children, and believe me I was worried as I had never taught Korean children before and I had heard they could be monsters.
Well! you guys are all wrong, or, you are teaching the wrong kids, or, you are the monster.

The girl hiding her face is Lauren then Rachel next Lauren's sister Emily then Anna.
These are the best children I have ever taught and would recommend Korean children any day.
I have now been teaching them and others for a long time now and my feelings are still the same.

Your Pronoun test

Circle the correct pronoun.

1. Despite her parent’s complaints, she decided to
   live by ___ in New York City. her
   herself
2. If you happen to see your parents this weekend,
   give ___ my best regards. him
   her
3. I can't understand ___ when she speaks German with ___
   . her, me him, me
4. He should be ashamed of ___ . himself him
5. Mary was worried about the children, so she
   convinced ___ husband not to accept the job abroad. him her
6. We came across a friend of ___ at the mall
   yesterday. ours us
7. I can't find ___ pencil. Can I use ___ , Mary? my, yours mine, your
8. I cut ___ when I was peeling the potatoes. me
   myself
9. This house is too expensive for ___ . We can't pay
   such a high rent. us we
10. Each plan has ___ merits. it its
11. He ___ said so.
    hisself himself
12. I do my work and they do ___ . their theirs
13. Give it back to ___ . It's ___. me, mine me, my
14. Despite ___ old age, he is very active. his
    its
15. They enjoyed ___ a lot at the cocktail party. theirselves themselves

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Articles Test

Articles

1. I went to _____ school in London. a) the b) ____ c) an d) a

2. I was really hungry so I ate _____ orange. a) the b) a c) an d) ____

3. I've been to Hong Kong _____ few times. It has really great
shopping. a) ____ b) an c) a d) the

4. My brother is _____ doctor in a hospital in Manchester. a) _____ b) a c) the d) an

5. I need______ new shoes. These ones are old and they have holes in them. a) the b) an c) a d) _____

6. Could you pass me ______ pepper please?a) an b) the c) a d) ____

7. They are building ______ hospital in the city centre. a) a b) ____ c) some d) an

8. John, Pete is on _______ telephone. He wants to ask you a question. a) an b) a c) _____ d) the

9. I was born in ________ seventies before computers were so popular. a) an b) _____ c) a d) the

10. I don't think people will ever live on ______ moon, do you? a) a b) the c) _____ d) an

11. Keiko decided that she wanted to learn ______ European language so
she chose French. a) a b) an c) ____ d) the

12. We will be there in half ______ hour. We will probably arrive
around eight o'clock. a) ____ b) an c) a d) ____

Adverb Tests

Circle the correct adverb to complete each question.

1. Ji Woo spoke (confident/confidently) to the audience urging them to elect him president of the union. She knew she had a (good/well) chance of winning the election.

2. Melanie (quick/quickly) ate her lunch. She knew the meeting was (important/importantly) and she didn't want to be late.

3. Sophie lived in Korea for several years. She speaks Korean (fluent/fluently), and she knows the culture very (good/well).

4. The (hot/hotly), humid weather made it difficult to enjoy the Malaysian beach. Hyun Soo seemed more (uncomfortable/uncomfortably) than relaxed.

5. The English examination is (extreme/extremely) challenging. Very few people make it into the (prestigious/prestigiously) International school.

6. This airline's (complete/completely) lack of organization is astounding. I have been very (patient/patiently) up to this point, but I am going to lose my temper if they don't find my baggage immediately.

7. The young girl sings (amazing/amazingly) well for someone her age. Her performance was (spectacular/spectacularly) to say the least.

8. The skies became surprisingly (dark/darkly) as the moon moved between the Earth and the Sun. As the eclipse progressed, the people in the streets stood (silent/silently) waiting for the sun's warmth to return.

9. Although Ms Angel speaks (soft/softly) and seems quite (timid/timidly), she is a leading expert in her field. Don't underestimate her abilities.

10. After the medieval cathedral was (tragic/tragically) burnt down last year, the city (quick/quickly) rebuilt it stone for stone. It looks exactly the same as it did before the fire.

11. We (gradual/gradually) noticed changes in Diane's personality; she became (quiet/quietly) and withdrawn from her friends and family. We finally realized that we had to do something about her drinking problem before it was too late.

12. Nicole grew (tired/tiredly) from the hours of overtime at work. It became quite (obvious/obviously) that she needed a long vacation.

13. The tomato plants grew (quick/quickly) in the rich soil. Mrs. Ficara intended to use the home grown tomatoes to make her (delicious/deliciously) tempting lasagna.

14. Mr. Sul (generous/generously) donated RM1,000,000 to the language school's scholarship fund. With this money, they will be able to help low-income students cope with the (increasing/increasingly) cost of education.

15. Teacher Richard is (good/well) known for his sense of humour. Last Saturday, when he told the joke about the Korean student and the schoolteacher, everybody there started laughing (uncontrollable/uncontrollably).

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Exams

Well, another month has gone by and the kids have again done well.
I try to make it as hard as possible without being a shit but my kids are very smart the boys and the girls lowest score was 89% which is not bad for beginners, don't you think!

Teaching their mothers now also but they don't get given exams, well truth is they do but it verbal by me, I think its more friendly that way I was giving spelling test, but I stopped for awhile and I'm thinking of starting it up again but just a little different, you know thirty words but spell only 15 random selected words.

Not much to say today, will come back later.

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You want to know more abot me????

I'm teacher Richard and I'm only that because thats what they call me; its that first name last last name first thingie you know Asian way.
I've been teaching for almost 25 years now, crap I'm getting old! Oh Well it was bound to happen!
"You know what I don't feel old" Well truth is I'm only 48 years old minus the 25 years teaching that makes it 23 when I started, that would be about right. I started in Australia teaching those Chinese that came there to live you know down the back of Sydney, they call it ChinaTown now.

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Just rambling

This will be the first entry!

I am now teaching Korean Kids english, I find them very interesting because they, one are very brand loyal to Korean brands and two, they stick together which in some cases not a good thing but in most ways this is a good thing.

I love these kids, I've only been teaching them for a short while i.e. 1 and a 1/2 years and before that the chinese in China; which is another story.

The Korean girls and boys were so friendly, I was just starting when one girl (no names please) befriended me, making me feel at home at the training centre. I started teaching there, with several other teachers; one being my favorite Ms Angel great lady not married I think, young looking very friendly with an mostly open mind. Anyway back to my kids; I started with holiday classes and slowly after awhile moved in to main stream English classes.
Short story the kids are just the same everywhere. (mostly anyway) They hate to study most do anyway, and they love to play with their phones or MP4 players{remember these children are Korean kids}