Korean Beginner 3 Course Training
Course overview
Korean Beginner 3 course has 10 lessons, to be taken over 10 weeks in any weekday evenings or over 5 weeks in an intensive course on Saturdays.
Our Korean Beginner 3 Course is designed for students who has knowledge of 200 or more vocabularies, who can respond to basic questions about daily life, hobbies, weather, food etc.
In this course, students will talk about favourite food and Korean food and hobbies, shopping plans, sharing shopping experiences, giving directions, transportations, suggesting. Our key grammar points covered include: 못, 도, -(으)ㄹ 거예요, -습니다/ㅂ니다, -습니까?/ㅂ니까?, Be verb (으)로, -아요/어요 (Request)
Lesson Topics
Lesson 1 – Warm up and Ice break
Lesson 2 – Favourite Food
Lesson 3 – Hobbies
Lesson 4 – Review Unit 1 and 2
Lesson 5 – Outfit
Lesson 6 – Basic adjectives
Lesson 7 – Review Unit 3 and 4
Lesson 8 – Direction and Movement
Lesson 9 – Means of Transportation
Lesson 10 – Review and presentations
Understand the students
Most Korean beginner students have a strong interest in Korean pop culture and traveling to Korea. If they have completed Beginner 1 and 2 courses, it shows their commitment and desire to make further progress. They want to feel confident speaking some Korean and understanding lines from K-dramas, for example.
However, at this beginner stage, students can become discouraged by complex grammar and difficult topics like polite forms. Teachers should aim to keep lessons light and enjoyable, avoiding overly deep explanations. Most students express their goal as wanting to speak Korean, focusing on conversational skills rather than grammar. Therefore, emphasize vocabulary and practical speaking practice, and keep grammar instruction minimal and straightforward.
Last but not least, they also want a fun and “Korean” experience. By bringing Korean pop culture topics, travel tips, and Korean games and snacks, or even your favorite Kpop songs would be important to make this course an overall winning experience!
Understand the Material
We are using Sejong Korean course books imported from Korean. These books sets our curriculum for Korean Level 1 to Level 4 courses. They provide strong academic backbones for our course content, the drawback of these books is the lack of detailed grammar explanations, a gap we address through our own customized grammar teaching material. It will take Beginner 3 & 4 to finish learning Sejong Korean 1B.
- Beginner 3 course – 10 PPTs & Book 1B Unit 1 – Unit 6
- Beginner 4 course – 10 PPTs & Book 1B Unit 7- Unit 12
Our materials as usual include PPT and printouts. Please use the Lesson planning tips for each lesson before your class to help you prepare for the teaching task ahead.
There are two online tools – Quizlet & Kahoot, that we designed for the classes, please find below videos on how to access and use them.
course Introduction – Beginner 1-4
- Course curriculum
- Materials including PPTs, flashcards, activities and digital resources
- Your personal touch bringing culture and personal stories or interest
- Teaching techniques of a student-led classroom including lesson time control, varieties of interactions, ie T-SSS, S-S, S-TSS
- Teaching instructions and use of Korean in class
- Understand scaffolding and be aware of expansions
- Homework and student support
- Teacher training and support
How to use Kahoot
- We use Kahoot as an interactive assessment tool to test the students, best after students learn grammar or when they need a bit of fun to lift up the mood! In general, students love it!
- It takes normally about 10 mins for 10 questions.
- Access to each lesson Kahoot links below, you will need to create your own account to use our Kahoot links.
Beginner 3 Kahoot Links
How to use quizlet
- Sign up to this course Quizlet class first, you and your students will need to request for full access, headoffice will approve when we receive the email notification.
- Look at the video, learn to use Quizlet functions, especially Live Group Game. It’s competitive and fun! However, it requires a minimum of 4 students to start the game.
- Encourage students to use Quizlet to review words after lesson on the phone. It’s effective and fun!
Understand
Understand the nature of active learning, is always by finding out “why” rather than hearing “why”.
Shift
Teacher shouldn’t be the busy person in the room, time and space should be given to the students to learn, practise and present.
Stand back
Except for tutorial part, most of the other activities should be done by students, become a facilitator, move closer to listen to students and help.
Class Management Tips
Class Dynamics
To warm up a group of strangers in the room, the teacher has to be the facilitator and set the tone.
Class WhatsApp
To maintain students sticking to the class, encourage them to share homework to their WhatsApp group.
Do things Together
The group bonds when they share good times together, learning in class, joining our workshops or going out together.