The Cactus Course Outlines provide a learning framework for the Cactus Foreign Language Evening Courses. They are designed to provide you with a good idea of what you might cover over a 10-week period, and include typical themes, grammar and vocabulary fields. They are flexible rather than prescriptive, in that our teachers may decide to adapt their learning plans to the specific level, aims and interests of their classes.

• Korean Level 1
• Korean Level 2
• Korean Level 3
• Korean Level 4

This is the general language outline for evening class teaching. It aims to guide teachers to plan their lessons with whichever book they use. Although some topics are the same on different levels, the content of the more advanced levels is richer and more varied.

Topics/Lexical Fields can include the following:

• Introduce yourself with greetings in Korean
• Asking about services in stores
• Shopping
• Describing the whereabouts of things and people
• Directions
• Time, numbers, ordinal numbers - telling and asking the time, counting cardinal numbers
• Everyday objects
• Places - shops, important buildings
• Daily life - routes, free time
• Job
• Home
• Culture

Grammar

• Basic Korean grammar rules - particules, postpositions
• Present
• Pronouns – subject, object, possessive
• Honorifics
• Singular vs. Plural
• Word order – sentence, question, negative, questions
• WH question (무엇, 어디에, 방법, 왜, etc.)

Cultural Content

• Writing in Korean (Hangul)
• Korean currency
• Shops in Korea
• Transportation

Skills work

• Lots of speaking-inc. situational exercises & interaction
• Basic pronunciation rules
• Listening activities
• Numbers and Counters rules
• Writing practice (Hangul)
• classroom language: 이해가요? 괜찮아요? 질문하세요. 질문 있어요? 수업을 마치겠습니다. 복습해요. 대답해주세요.

Topics/Lexical Fields can include the following:

• Talking about self & others, inc. family – key personal information
• Eating out
• Expressing gratitude
• Invitations, making appointments
• Talking about Plans, e.g.이번 연휴 때 뭐 할거예요?
• Making Requests, e.g.예약 좀 해 주세요.
• Holidays, Trips
• Hotels & restaurants
• Getting around the town – taxis, buses
• Town & Country

Grammar

• Revisiting previous level's grammar
• Understand Korean aspect and levels of respect
• Tense: Past, Future
• Making suggestions - including acceptance and refusal
• Use verbs with negative, past and past negative sentences
• Basic Korean grammar rules – clause particles, postpositions
• Adjectives
• Numbers and Counters rules

Cultural Content

• Korean cuisine
• Korean sweets
• Korean Business Culture
• Festivals, Outings

Skills Work

• Lots of speaking – inc. situational exercises and interaction
• Pronunciation – key sounds (ㄷ,ㅌ,ㄸ,ㅂ,ㅍ,ㅃ,ㄱ,ㅋ,ㄲ,ㅅ,ㅆ,ㅈ,ㅊ,ㅉ)
• Listening activities
• Write and Read sentences in Korean

Topics/Lexical fields can include the following:

• Talking about self & others, inc. family – key personal information
• Korean festivals
• Travel
• Holidays
• Health/illness, e.g. 사랑니 좀 뽑아주세요.
• Meetings
• Leisure Time
• Money & shopping: Topic: _____ 얼마예요?
• Studying language
• Socializing

Grammar

• Revisiting previous level's grammar
• Attributive sentences
• Offers and suggestions
• Connecting actions in sentences
• Continuous: past, present & future
• Permission – Asking permission to do something, e.g.옆에 좀 앉아도 돼요?
• Polite forms (being polite, negative commands, please do not, etc.)
• Present Progressive and Habitual Actions
• Preference and Desire
• Expressing desires

Cultural Content

• Business outside Seoul
• Museums in Korea
• Accommodation in Korea
• Socializing, Sports and Leisure

Skills Work

• Extensive speaking/active practice
• Extensive listening
• Pronunciation – key sounds
• Reading and writing in Korean

Topics/Lexical fields can include the following:

• The Home
• Visiting Koreans
• Meeting Friends
• Compliments
• Parties & Socializing
• Leisure time
• Travel
• Health and Safety

Grammar

• Revisiting previous level's grammar
• Duration expressions
• Compound sentences
• Relative clauses (not only…but…)
• Descriptive adverbials
• Conjunctions
• Wishes
• Common idioms (관용어), e.g. 바람을 쐬다. 바람이 들다. 김이 새다. 양 다리를 걸치다. 눈에 들다. 눈 밖에 나다.
• Language to express opinions, eg. dis/agreement, un/certainty
• Comparatives
• Adjective forms
• Express ability and possibility

Cultural Content

• The Korean Household
• Building rapport with colleagues: 회식
• Going out
• Talking about big cities in Korea
• Korean traditional life

Skills Work

• Frequency of time expressions
• More extensive word-building
• More extensive word families (noun-verb-adjective-adverb)
• Compound verbs
• Invitations
• Wider range of functions – inc. social language, giving advice, making inquiries
• Extensive speaking/active practice
• Extensive listening
• Pronunciation
• Read short Korean texts (800 word vocabulary)

Topics/Lexical fields can include the following:

A wide range of possibilities, inc. Entertainment, mass media, work, education, school life and routine, the environment, tourism & travel, news, social & political issues, books, generation changes, cities, people, relationships, the arts, technology, health & fitness, social life, night life, national traditions/customs & culture, consumerism, globalization

Grammar

• Revisiting previous level's grammar
• Duration expressions
• Compound sentences
• Usage of plain forms of verbs
• Expressing personal experiences and narration
• Describing actions and activities
• Using the dictionary
• Suggestions/Recommendations
• Usage of plain form of adjectives and of nouns
• Modifying the noun
• Common idioms, maxims, and “사자성어”
• Common linking words (conjunctions, etc.)

Cultural Content

• How to greet someone you already know after time apart
• Original Korean notation rules for writing
• Common signs in department stores
• Popular places in Korea
• Traditional Korean-style hotels
• Sightseeing in Korea

Skills Work

• Extensive speaking/active practice
• Extensive listening
• Pronunciation
• Read and write essays in Korean
• Read and write some basic Hanja (Chinese characters)

Topics/Lexical fields can include the following:

A wide range of possibilities, inc. Entertainment, mass media, job advertisements, applications and interviews, education, environmental protection, global warming, tourism & travel, news, social & political issues, books, generation changes, cities, people, the arts, technology, health & fitness, social life, night life, national traditions/customs & culture, consumerism, pollution, website, famous personalities.

Grammar

• Revisiting previous level’s grammar
• Present/Past
• Duration expressions
• Compound sentences
• Relative clauses
• Descriptive phrases
• Conjunctions
• Modal clauses
• Describing changes in state
• Making hypothetical statements/stating the result of actions or events
• Indicating that an action or event has been completed
• Conditionals
• Speaking of natural or habitual results
• Expressing necessity and obligation

Cultural Content

• Drinking and eating
• Media and Arts
• 한류 (Korean Wave) and 한류 스타 (Korean star)
• Tradition in Korea
• Mixing of speech styles – formal, informal, etc.
• Collectivism

Skills Work

• Extensive listening
• Pronunciation
• Translation from Korean into English and vice versa
• Writing passages in Korean
• Expressing opinions
• Reading and writing Korean – Hangul and Hanja

Topics/Lexical fields can include the following:

• Asking about something you do not understand
• Pointing out something you noticed
• Presenting knowledge you have acquired
• Explaining preparation and procedures
• Making suppositions
• Stating your impression based on how things appear
• Talking about change in everyday life
• Soliciting and stating opinions
• Explaining procedures
• Talking about how facilities are used
• Telling news
• Talking about weather and its effects/Global warming /Environmental problems
• Asking someone to do something for you
• Making excuses
• Talking about education
• Asking for permission to do something

Grammar

• Expressing suppositions and wondering aloud
• Expressing impressions
• Describing actions done or to be done in preparation
• Expressing certainty and decisions
• Expressing causes of or reasons for situations
• Describing Change: Changed coming into effect/continuous changes
• Nominalising sentences
• Indicating means or attendant circumstances
• Describing deliberate effects
• Perfective and imperfective in the past, present, and future actions
• Describing the actions of giving and receiving services
• Expressing intention
• Using causative and causative-passive structures

Cultural Content

• Pet ownership in Korea
• Humans and Nature
• Crime and Education
• Business
• Customs and special occasions
• Reason behind customs
• Histories
• Environmental issues
• Internet culture

Skills Work

• Extensive listening
• Pronunciation
• Translation from Korean into English and vice versa
• Writing essays in Korean
• Discussion to express your opinions
• Read and write some basic Hanja
• Read Korean texts
• Formal speech and writing of basic patterns