한국의 설날/Korean New Year's, Intermediate Mid, Korean

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Amber Hoye, Daum Jung, Camille Daw, Mimi Fahnstrom, Yurim Lee

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한국의 설날 Korean New Year's

Description:

Students will learn what expressions and phrases are used when they want to make a guess. Then, they will discuss about the Korean New Year's, including what they do, eat, and wear. Students will also compare and contrast different New Year's traditions among different culture.

Proficiency Level:

Intermediate Mid

Keywords:

guess, emotion, New Year's, traditions, Lunar calendar, holiday

World Readiness Standards:

  • Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
  • Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken Korean on a variety of topics.
  • Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of Korean culture.
  • Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of Korean culture.
  • Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of Korean culture and their own.

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

  • COMM 1.1 Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
  • COMM 2.1 Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
  • CLTR 1.1: Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.
  • CLTR 1.2: Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.
  • COMP 2.1 Identify, describe and compare/contrast products and their use in the target culture with the learner’s culture.

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can follow a conversation that friends are having about what they are wearing for an occasion.
  • I can understand why we eat certain foods or follow certain traditions for the New Year’s celebration.
  • I can understand how Koreans celebrate the New Years's and compare it to my family’s tradition. 

Materials Needed:

Google Slides

Emotion Cards

Warm-up

Begin by introducing the Can-Dos for today’s activity

1. Place Emotion Cards faced down on table. 

Students will pick out Emotion Card. Based on the card, students will try to act the word out.

2. Other students will try to guess what they are feeling through their actions.

3. Through this activity, students will practice using "~같아요" expression, which translates into "it seems like...".

기쁜 것 같아요.

I think the person is happy.

슬픈 것 같아요. 

I think the person is sad.

Main Activity

1. Open up Google Slides.

2. Students will discuss the Korean New Year's. During this lab, they will practice expressions used when one is unsure about an information.

3. Ask students when the Korean New Year's is and why it is different than the American New Year's.

4. Students will state their guesses.

5. Students will also make guesses on what people do, eat, and wear on the Korean New Year's.

설날에는 한복을 입을 것 같아요.

I think they will wear Hanbok on the New Year's.

설날에 떡국을 먹을 것 같아요.

I think they will eat rice cake soup on the New Year's.

5. After discussing the Korean New Year's, talk about if any other students have special events or traditions in their family or culture on the New Year's day.

Wrap-up

Ask the following question to finish the lab: 

  • What other holidays are there in Korea and in America?
  • 미국과 한국에는 어떤 다른 공휴일이 있나요?

End of lab:

• Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence. 
(Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.) 
• Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
• Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can follow a conversation that friends are having about what they are wearing for an occasion.
  • I can understand why we eat certain foods or follow certain traditions for the New Year’s celebration.
  • I can understand how Koreans celebrate the New Years's and compare it to my family’s tradition. 
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