I did my presentation on Korean family words based on the song video and the family tree I drew. I talked about the lyric of the Korean song which includes the most commonly used family words. Also, by looking at the lyric, we could learn some grammar. For example, the first sentence is: 곰 세 마리 가 한 집에 있어(gom se mari ga han jibe isseo). Gom = bear, Se= three, Han=one, Jibe= House, Isseo=are. Instead of saying"Three bears are in one house", Korean would be like " Bear three one house are. The sequence of Korean is totally different from English.
I am impressed by two other students' presentation.The first presentation is about Korean weekdays. It was very interesting because these words are related to natural elements like gold, wood, water, fire, and etc. Also, the Korean words for these elements share the same pronunciation with Chinese words. Another presentation was about Indian numbers. It was intriguing because we learned the numbers and single/plural forms so that we can count time.
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Also, Nuannuan gave us a Korean survival lesson. She introduced some words like: to write, to be written, and danger. She also wrote a sentence: "What does it say?" in both Korean and English on the blackboard. I learned how to put several Korean words into a complete sentence and the correct grammatical sequence.