Life in the classroom

Meet the friendly students of Memory Tera!

Here's Jimmy, Joseph, Lisa, Brenda and Lilly. Right now they're studying Spies of the Civil War and they think that being a spy is very exciting. One day Joseph wants to be a spy for South Korea, but he knows that spies would usually get more than a B- on their memorisation test. Keep studying Joseph!

At the back of the class is Janice who is very good at paraphrasing. In the middle is Mindy who is quiet but always work hard. At the front are Helen and Tina who always sit there because they have bad eyesight. Tina has a funny face because she made a mistake on her Review Test.

And this is Windy from Eagle class. Right now, Eagle is the highest class at Saha, so these students are the Kings and Queens of Saha. Windy works so hard during the lesson that during break time she sleeps like this on the tables. If you study as hard as Windy does, one day you'll be in Eagle class too.

And here are some other students from Eagle: Julie, Abby and Lion. Lion loves computers and will often spend break time staring at the screen like this, waiting for something exciting to happen. Unfortunately, exciting things rarely happen on Mr Lee's computer, but Lion is always hopeful.

- Written by Mr Lee

Lion and Mike - Winter Intensives

Here's Lion and Mike from intensive classes performing their dialogue. They wrote the entire script themselves. At the end of the video, you can see Abby.

A Brief History of the Saha Branch

The CDI Saha Branch opened around July 2006. Since then, attendance has grown to around 300 students and there are 17 staff members. The branch is located in Western Busan, near Dangni Station.

This is what our school looks like from the outside. Right now there are 6 regular CDI teachers: Mr Lee, Mr Jordan, Teacher Michelle, Teacher Logan, Mr John and Ms Nicole. There are also 4 April English teachers: Teacher Liz, Mr Simon, Teacher Grace and Teacher Claire. Teacher Cassie is our special Teukmokgol program instructor.

Here's a promotional video for the Chungdahm Institute in Korea.

In December last year all of the CDI teachers had an end-of-year celebration. During this time a lot of food was eaten and competitions were held. Here is Mr John competing against another teacher in the arm wrestling competition. Mr John is very strong.

Here are some of the administration staff at the dinner.

And this is Mr Kang, the CEO of most of the CDI branches in Busan.

Here's Ms Nicole and Christine enjoying a dinner after a long week of work.

Saha teachers like to read English books all the time. Even on the subway.

This photo is from Head Instructor training in Seoul. CDI teachers are trained to do many different things.

Sometimes students at the Saha branch can be naughty. Mr Lee makes naughty students write lines during breaktime. It's important to finish all of your homework and not be noisy!

This is Joe, who is now in Bridge Reading. Joe likes to balance the desk on his lap so that he can be closer to his work and study harder. Do you study this hard?

Here is a photo from (the branch manager) Julie's birthday. You will probably never find out her age.

Here is another Julie, who is now in Birdie Reading. Julie is looking at the camera because she is curious about the shutter speed.

After that, all of the students wanted to have a closer look. Here are Annie, June, Julie and Cuttlefish Ben. They are good students and study hard for their tests.

And here's a big photo of June. June says to all of the CDI students "Study hard so you can be in Birdie Reading, just like me!"

- Written by Mr Lee

First Post - Some General Guidelines for Teachers

Welcome to the Saha CDI blog!

I hope that this website can be a creative outlet and learning resource for all of our students, even after we have moved on to greener pastures.

Here are some general guidelines that I would like to suggest:

1) You can post as little as you want, or not at all. Using this website is completely optional and an extension of regular work. However, try to refrain from over-posting especially if it is drowning out the less frequent posters.

2) The purpose of this site is to showcase student work, provide information on the CDI Saha Branch and to be a learning resource for any ESL learners. Posts that drift away from these principles should be avoided.

3) Posts should use a level of English appropriate to each class level. For example a post about an English Chip 1 class should contain very simple English, while a Birdie Reading post would be much more articulate.

4) All instructors at Saha, including April English and Teukmokgol teachers should have equal administrative access. No students shall be given the password and login details.

5) Some suggestions for posts: Any creative writing from students or teachers, artwork, class photos, student or staff profiles, recent news, birthday announcements, updates on life at the branch, ideas for improvement and anything else that common sense dictates.

Enjoy!

- Lee Farrand
Head Instructor, March 2008