Classroom resources
Free lesson material for English teachers working in Korea — discussion topics, grammar drills for Korean speakers, and no-prep classroom games. Every article comes with a printable handout.
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Today's news, turned into a lesson — with a student handout and teacher notes.
The mistakes Korean students actually make — articles, tense, countability — and drills that fix them.
No-prep games that work in a Korean hagwon classroom — 8 to 15 students, one whiteboard.
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- Classroom Games2026-08-18 — 5 min read
How do you play Running Dictation in a Korean hagwon classroom?
Running Dictation is a zero-prep speaking and writing game where students sprint between a text on the wall and their partner at a desk, rebuilding sentences from memory. It works with any level and any text.
- Grammar for Korean Speakers2026-08-18 — 5 min read
Why do Korean students say 'I went to station' without 'the'?
Korean has no articles, so learners omit 'a', 'an', and 'the' or scatter them randomly. The fix is teaching definiteness as a binary question: does the listener already know which one you mean?
- Grammar for Korean Speakers2026-08-03 — 5 min read
Why do Korean students say 'I ate lunch' when they mean 'I've eaten lunch'?
Korean has no direct equivalent to English present perfect tense, so students translate past actions using simple past. This creates confusion about whether an action connects to now or finished completely in the past.
- Discussion & DebateMiddle school2026-07-15 — 1 min read
Should schools ban smartphones? A ready-to-run debate lesson
A 45-minute debate lesson for middle school students on banning phones in school, with a student handout, sentence frames and teacher notes. Students take a side, defend it, then argue the opposite.