Welcome to Korean 2 - 8th grade!  Students will meet 3 times a week.

Here's the coursework.

KOREAN 2 - Coursework

Rhi, Jounghye (이 정혜)                                    East–West School of International Studies

E-mail: jrhi@ewsis.org                                           School Year 2008 - 2009                                                                                                                          

TEXTBOOKS:

                     1. Writing Korean for Beginners  by HOLLYM

                          (초급 한국어 쓰기)

                     2. Korean Language I – Easy to Learn – Korean Culture Research Inc.

                          (한국어 I)

                     3. Speaking Korean for beginners by HOLLYM

                          (초급 한국어 말하기)

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, students will (1) be able to produce and comprehend coordinate, complex and compound Korean sentence structures in various tenses and moods (including relative clause constructions), (2) be able to read, write and speak complex/compound affirmative, negative, declarative, imperative, and interrogative sentences in polite style, (3) be able to produce and comprehend conditional, concessive, and various negative clauses, (4) be able to express comparison, reasons, ability, and desires/wishes, (5) be able to ask for and grant permission/favor, (6) be familiarized with ㅡ, ㄹ, ㅂ irregular verbs, and (7) be acquainted with sociolinguistic aspects of the language.

GRADING   

Attendance and class participation         20 points

Projects & Special Presentation             15 points

Homework/Composition Assignments    20 points

Tests                                                      35 points

Quiz                                                        10  points

1. A quiz (including dictation) will be given once every week. No make-up quizzes or exams will be given except for emergencies (See #7).

    *In case of emergencies:

           (A written proof should be submitted.)

           (A missed quiz should be made up within a few days.)

           (No more than two make-up quizzes will be allowed a term.)

2. Punctual submission of homework is mandatory (Penalty for late submission!).

3. Final exam date will be announced. Absolutely no make-up final exam!

4. Class attendance is to be taken seriously. Except for emergencies with reasonable proofs, you will lose 0.5 point for each absence.

5. As part of your composition assignments, you must keep a journal (일기쓰기) (10 sets in total).

SCHEDULE

DATE                      OBJECTIVE                                   FUNCTIONS

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Unit 8           o. Dialog: Time (시간)                             * Telling times

                     o. Daily schedule (하루일과)                  * Talk about the daily schedule

                     o. The particles –에, -까지, -부터

                     o. the class subjects (과목)

                      o. The question word: what (무슨)

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Unit 9            o. Dialog: What day is today? (요일, 날짜)   *Talk about things related to the

                      o. The four seasons  (사계절)                        calendar

                      o. Time expressions: 오늘/내일.모레        * Identity seasons

                     o. The question word, when –언제         * Describe weather condition

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Unit 10         o. Leisure activities (운동)                       * Talk about leisure activities

o. The particle -하고(같이)                      * Talk about thing you can and

                     o. The verb: play (하다/치다/타다)                cannot do

                     o. The conjunction; but (그렇지만)            * Talk about available leisure time

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Unit 11         o. Household cores (집안일)                  * Name household chores

                      o. The past tense (했어요)                      * Talk about past events

                     o. Time expressions 어제/그저께          

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Unit 12         o. Family (가족)                            * Identify different family relationship

Nov 20-22     o. Age (나이)                                           * Use honorifics and humble forms to

                     o. Regular honorifics; -시다              irregular honorific

                     o. Occupations (직업)                  * ask and tell how old is someone is by

                     o. The Pure-Korean numbers           using Pure-Korean numbers (21-100)

                     o. The question word, who (누구)

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Unit 13         o. Parts of the body (몸)               * Identify parts of the body

o. Health and welfare (건강)        * Talk about the symptoms of illness

                      o. The question word, why (왜)   

                     o. the conjunction; so (그래서)

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Unit 14         o. The clothes shopping (옷 쇼핌)          * Talk about clothes, price and shopping

                       o. The verb; wear (입다/신다.쓰댜)   *Talk about desires and preferences of

                       o. Money (돈)                                         shopping items, interaction with sales staff     

                       o. the adverb; very (아주/너무)          * Talk about the prices and changes

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Unit 15         o. Dialog: travel (여행)                 * Talk about the future trip

                  o. Transportation (교통수단)             * Talk about the means of transportation

                    o. The future tense (으)ㄹ 거예요        

The above syllabus was made in accordance with Language other than English Checkpoint A Resource Guide of New York State Education Department. Checkpoint A study of languages other than English is the beginning of the curriculum and is a graduation requirement for all students in New York State. Assessment is based on the communicative approach in which the structure of the language is ancillary to, and yet supportive of the primary goal of meaningful communication.

Checkpoint A:

-       emphasizes simple, selected sentence structures, not necessarily limited to the present tense;

-       Sets the stage for oral and written communication for the beginning language learner;

-       Forster cultural understandings;

-       Includes age-appropriate communicative activities, strategies, and goals that address the particular needs and interests of middle school students;

-       Encourages interdisciplinary connection; and

-       Is the first step on the pathway to linguistic proficiency.