Learning Journal 3

[Maggie Dong]

Last week, after some review on self-introduction and sentence structures, Jenna took us to a higher level of reading. We have a weather forecast and a list of words on our handout that day. Before we started reading, we learned quite a few new works regarding weather, such as micro dust, temperature difference, and fog. We also encountered geographical words such as inland and the East Sea of Korea. There are some sentence structures such as “to be expected” and “to be forecasted” in the passage as well, so we talked about them too.

Then, we started trying reading the weather forecast. It started with simple sentences that we could understand, but then it gets more detailed as it moves on. I read it quite slowly because there are many vocabs in it that I didn’t know, but Jenna pointed them out and explained them to us. I read the handout for a few more times after the lesson and became more familiar with the words. It feels so good to be able to understand the majority of a paragraph.

We did a little review on a weather forecast this week, and then we learned about 개천절(National Foundation Day) on October 3. We watched a short video talking about the original story, and Jenna added more details to it afterward. We learned the name of the characters in it as well as the vocabs for bears, tigers, and some veggies. I am quite interested in the history of Korea, so I asked Jenna more about 세종대왕 who created hangul and also a farming guideline. I enjoyed our lesson a lot and I’m glad that I’m working on my Tasks 1 and 2, which are to discuss the weather and to learn more about animals, colors, and Korean holidays.