Korean Elementary 2 Course Training
Course overview
Korean Elementary 2 course is for 10 weeks on weekday evenings or 5 weeks intensive over Saturdays.
Students will join as confident beginners who can read Hanguel well, who have learnt basic Korean grammar and sentence structures, who can manage basic conversational Korean.
The curriculum of this course and the other Elementary courses will include
- Lesson 1 – warm up lesson, ice breakers and getting to know your class well
- Lesson 2 – new unit
- Lesson 3 – new unit
- Lesson 4 – review and activities
- Lesson 5 – new unit
- Lesson 6 – new unit
- Lesson 7 – review and activities
- Lesson 8 – new unit
- Lesson 9 – new unit
- Lesson 10 – review and assessment
Understand the students
Most Korean beginner students have strong interest in Korean pop cultures and traveling to Korea. If they made it to Beginner 3, that means they are warmed up to learning Korean as a language. They have motivations to invest time and effort to learning, and they wish for fluency in Korean, even though in reality, they are still quite far away from fluency.
We should encourage these students though. By showing them what they can do already at this level, maybe even try going to Korean restaurant and speak to the waiter or waitress in basic Korean!
At the same time, 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.
Each beginner course will include 10 PowerPoint presentations, designed to serve as lesson plans with color-coded sections. Additionally, other materials such as flashcards, question cards, and activity sheets are available at the head office. These resources are intended to support a task-based learning style for your lessons.
Lastly, we have two very useful online tools: Quizlet and Kahoot. These tools are designed for quick assessments and reviews of what students have just learned and have been very popular in our classes. Below, you will find videos on how to access and use them.
course Introduction – Elementary 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.
Elementary 2 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.