This week I will continue to work on adjectives and describing things and the grammar related exercises according to Chapter 6 and 7 in Korean from zero. I'm then going to start on Chapter 8 and work on locations, which will help me transition into my learning goal of asking for directions and questions related to taking public transportation.
The topic I would teach is descriptive verbs. I think these are very important because it is how you describe things, which makes up a lot of conversation, and when I learned it, most things in Korean dramas I had heard before started to make sense in terms of how they constructed the sentence and the meanings. There is the verb stem, which is the unconjugated version and then the basic form, which is the form used to express the meanings. There are general rules but there are also a lot of exceptions. I learned it through the Korean from Zero book and it had a chart of the rules and exceptions, but it was pretty boring to just memorize the chart and it didn't really stick. The workbook exercises helped a bit though. But my activity would stimulate activities I did in class learning grammar and words for other languages. It would involve a small group of people and turning it into a game. First, I would give the people the chart of the rules I learned so they have a general idea. The game is where they will solidify the rules in their minds. The game would entail moving around such as the around the world game where whoever answers the question first gets to progress. Whoever can get around the room first wins. The questions asked would concern how a verb would be conjugated in basic form or how to say a certain sentence in Korean with the basic form verbs. I think this would be a more effective and fun way to learn because I learn better when I'm having fun and I'm completely engaged and there's no room for my mind to wander. The basic verb forms are meant to be memorized and I think an interactive game with lots of repetition is helpful as it was helpful for me to remember my multiplication tables as well as vocabulary words in Spanish class.
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