The kids that come to our school know at least a little English, though the hard part is getting them to speak it - especially the lowest level classes. It's quite hard to get any English out of those levels. But the higher levels are pretty good about speaking English. My classes are mostly Language Arts - they read a lot of stories and we do questions about them to get them to write and speak, and I also teach them vocab in the process and some grammar. 

I'm having a real hard time getting some of the kids to listen to me because they just ignore me speaking English to them. I think I started out too easy too cause they pretty much walk all over me. Today was a pretty crappy day cause I had 3 really naughty classes who wouldn't listen to anything and just kept speaking in Korean. I really need to crack down on that, but today was just a losing battle trying to get thru everything. I think I'm going to start writing their names on the board when they're bad and putting checks next to them. Lindsey told me about that - 2 checks for warnings, and 3=call home, etc. We're starting a sticker reward system at school too. I guess I'll try a few things and see how it goes, but i can't handle any more classes like I had today. I'm exhausted after that.