Required Pre-requisite: Explore Korean for Teens 4
Students MUST either have taken the above course OR communicate with the Instructor prior to registration in order to have an assessment done to approve them for this course. 

Please take the time to read all the below class information sections!

Please be aware that this course requires students to devote daily study and practice time outside of class in order to progress well and be able to fully participate in class. There is weekly out of class workbook practice as well as assignments (oral and written) to be submitted to the instructor for evaluation. Korean is a challenging language and the goal of this course is mastery over the learned material. This course does not grade but uses progress assessment (through in-class performance AND submitted assignments) to determine eligibility to continue to the next level. Self-motivation will be necessary on the part of the learner. This course may be especially appealing to those students possibly interested in studying Korean at the University/College level later on! 

Students are required during class to interact verbally and visually, if possible, with the other students and the instructor to answer questions and more effectively practice speaking, reading and pronunciation-please contact the instructor prior to the course if you need accommodation. 

The class meeting time is 110 minutes approximately. Instruction will be done via discussion, speaking practice, reading outloud, written practice, as well as short lectures and powerpoint. When possible and relevant, authentic source material, videos, music, etc. will be used. Students will participate in both vocabulary and grammar based activities as well as short speaking assessments to allow the learner as well as the instructor to assess the student's progress and make relevant study suggestions to the student individually. 

Over the course students will continue to build and practice their beginner level speaking and writing/typing skills, listen to, read, and practice simple conversations and ask and speak about everyday activities. Students will be instructed in foundational Korean grammar, be introduced to relevant Korean cultural topics, and hone their Korean pronunciation and intonation skills as well. The course will cover primarily material from the 9th-11th lessons of the 2nd edition textbook Integrated Korean Beginning 2 which is required to be purchased for this class. 

Students will review during Week 1.

Students will learn:
Weeks 2-6/7: Introduction to Yoteach site, to develop deeper ability in the usage of spoken deferential form (questions, statements, past, present, future), to use honorific vocabulary/expressions appropriately, to express a goal/destination and source for certain actions, to describe objects and people using adjectives (noun-modifying form), and how to discuss birthdays as well as 1st Birthday (Dol) celebrations

Weeks 8/9-12/13: to express desire to do an activity, to connect clauses to express contrast, to connect clauses to express cause, to create open ended sentences-important conversational feature, to describe objects and people using verbs (noun-modifying form) in present tense, how to have a formal conversation with a teacher/professor, how to make an apology and give reasons as well as express reservations, how to give a fuller self-introduction.

Weeks 14/15-19: to use the progressive tense, convey intention, ask someone's opinion, express dismay or surprise at an amount of something, how to extend, accept or decline invitations, expressions relating to meeting someone by chance.

Students will review course materials during Week 20.

Weeks are estimates at this time apart from Week 1 and 20. Student progress will be a determining factor!