Thursday, June 16, 2011

Log49: Why Speaking Tests Are My Favorite Part of the Year


Hello, my name is Yoon-Chan Kim, and these are the students I teach:


Hello, my name is ___ and my dream is to be a neurosurgeon.
Hello, my name is ___ and my mother became an angel when I was two years old.
Hello, my name is ___ and I do not know my father.
Hello, my name is ___ and I am so scared because my father saw me smoking and has not talked to me since.
Hello, my name is ___ and I love Britney Spears.
Hello, my name is ___ and my father lives in Indonesia.
Hello, my name is ___ and I want to be a hacker for the government because I love my country.
Hello, my name is ___ and my parents do not have jobs.
Hello, my name is ___ and I am sorry to my family for my bad test scores.
Hello, my name is ___ and my dream is to be a novelist.
Hello, my name is ___ and I have not seen my mother for fifteen years, and I do not miss her.
Hello, my name is ___ and my dream is to be a fund manager because I grew up poor.
Hello, my name is ___ and I want to be happy.
Hello, my name is ___ and I do not know my parents.
Hello, my name is ___ and I am so tired of never feeling good enough because every time I try my hardest my grades are never good enough.
Hello, my name is ___ and my dream is to be a farmer.
Hello, my name is ___ and my dream is to be a barista.
Hello, my name is ___ and I am nervous.
Hello, my name is ___ and I want a beautiful life.
Hello, my name is Yoon-Chan Kim, and these are the students I love.

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Words to Live By

"Who dares wins." -Motto of the British SAS

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." -The Buddha

"Don't give up; don't ever give up."
...-Jim Valvano (ESPY Awards speech)

"Persevere, do not only practice your art, but endeavor also to fathom its inner meaning; it deserves this effort. For only art and science can raise men to the level of gods."
-Ludwig van Beethoven (letter to a child in 1812)

"This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
-William Shakespeare (Polonius from Hamlet)

"The time is always ripe to do right."
-Martin Luther King Jr. ('Letter from Birmingham Jail')

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
-TS Eliot (last stanza from 'Four Quartets')

"All things of this world will come to pass. Strive on, diligently." -Last words of the Buddha

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom."
-David Foster Wallace (commencement speech to Kenyon College Graduating Class of 2005)

Enjoy the little things in life. -Yours Truly