KOREAN 110G Korean for Beginners 1

Schedule
Schedule H: Languages

Semester
Semester One

Campus
City Campus

Note: KOREAN 110 does not count for General Education; only KOREAN 110G counts for General Education.

Korea and Korean presence in New Zealand have been increasingly important. The University of Auckland has been offering Korean language and culture courses over twenty years so that students have an opportunity to get to know Korea and Koreans better.

This course aims to introduce total beginners to basic spoken and written skills in modern Korean. It entails four class hours per week.

This course is designed for those who are interested in learning Korean but have never studied Korean before.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Carry out a conversation on simple topics of daily life.
• Comprehend simple Korean texts.
• Write about your own everyday life at a basic level.

• Week 1: Korean alphabet — consonants, vowels and syllable blocks
• Week 2: Greetings, basic sentence structure
• Week 3: Numerals, nationality, informal endings
• Week 4: Campus, location, existence, verbs and adjectives
• Week 5: Daily routine, present tense, questions
• Week 6: Family, possession, alternative questions
• Week 7: House, possessive relations, vowel contraction
• Week 8: Bookstore, irregular verbs, purpose
• Week 9: Yesterday, past tense, negation
• Week 10: Planning ahead, probability
• Week 11: Weather, future tense, seeking agreement
• Week 12: Direction, formal endings 

Two one-hour lectures and two on-hour tutorials every week.

You are encouraged to participate actively in interactive activities designed to enhance listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in and outside the class.

1. Before each class, you are encouraged to read over the lesson of the textbook including New Words and Expressions, Culture and Grammar. The lesson that will be covered in each week is specified in the schedule.
2. You are expected to access the University website and do the CECIL exercises and check announcements, guidelines for tests, presentations and exam.
3. You are encouraged to access the textbook website which provides audio files and PowerPoint slides that accompany the textbook.

Coursework — 50%

• Aural and Written Test 1 — 10%
• Aural and Written Test 2 — 20%
• Presentations — (2 x 5%) = 10%
• Vocabulary Quizzes — (5 x 1%) = 5%
• Class Participation — 5%

Final written exam (2 hours) — 50%

Prescribed textbooks

• Textbook (required): Young-Mee Cho et al. Integrated Korean Beginning 1, (Second Edition), University of Hawai’i Press, 2010.
• Workbook (highly recommended): Mee-Jeong Park et al.Integrated Korean Workbook Beginning 1, (Second Edition), University of Hawai’i Press, 2010.

These books can be purchased at the University Bookshop.

CECIL exercises
CECIL exercises of each lesson are available to students enrolled in the course.

Digital audio files and PowerPoint contents
You can download audio files of the textbook in RealAudio or MP3 format from www.kleartextbook.com.

PowerPoint contents for each lesson in the textbook are also on the web.

Online dictionaries
NAVER Dictionary
Nate Dictionary
Yahoo Dictionary