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[Yu_Bum_suk]

The other week I was discussing with someone here about a lesson based on Kim Hyeona / Yuna. This is designed to take about 30 minutes of an academic HS lesson. If you cut-and-paste it into a Word doc. the line spacing and what-not should line up. Feel free to use any of it and consider it now public domain.



1. Yu-Na Kim and Brian Orser in Canada (CBC Canada)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnla6gkFFo


Vocab:

- adapt / adapted 적응하다, 채택하다.
- anonymity 익명, 무명, 저자 불명
- coaching expertise 코치(지도) 전문지식
- end up (arrive) 결국~이 되다. 도달하다.
- facilities 시설물
- feel at home 편안하게 느끼다.
- to grow on (come to like) 좋아하게 되다.
- half a world away 지구의 반 정도 떨어진
- in the heart of (center of) ~의 중심에
- inevitable 피할 수 없는, 필연적인
- to lack 결여되다. 부족하다.
- management skills 관리 기술, 관리 능력
- marketable athlete 시장에서 이루어지고 있는 선수
- recognized 인식하다. 인지하다.
- sizeable Korean population 상당한 한국인구수
- training 훈련
- tutorial 개별 지도(시간), 지도서, Adj.) 개인교사에 의한

Listen to Kim Hyeona talk about her life in Canada and fill in the blanks:

�We thought we were ____________ to skate in another _________ because there�s no ice _________ and time for athletes so I would just ask Brian ____ ____________ my, um, main ___________, and he said � yes�.

�I feel like I�m __________ in Korea, so I feel very _______________. There�s a Korean ______________. I eat Korean __________ every day. It�s very good to ____________ here.





Questions about Kim Hyeona

1. What does Kim say she likes about living in Toronto?

a. there�s a Korean noraebang b. there�s a Korean restaurant c. there�s a Korean school d. there�s a Korean market e. there�s a Korean hair salon

2. How did Kim first meet Brian Orser?

a. he gave her a total score b. he gave her a tutorial c. he gave her a present d. her mother wanted him to coach e. she met him at a concert

3. Toronto is Canada�s�

a. longest city b. coldest city c. largest city d. capital city e. warmest city

4. Kim was born on 5 September, 1990. How old is she in western years?

She _________________________________________________.

5. How old is she in Korean years?

She ___________________________________________________

6. What does Korea lack that Kim wanted?

a. skating marketability b. skating facilities c. coaching expertise d. a & c e. b & c

7. Kim says �so I would just ask Brian to become my main coach�. What would be a better way to say this? ______________________________________________________________.

8. When did Kim move to Toronto?

She ___________________________________________________________________.


9. Do you think you would like to live in Canada? Why or why not?




Reading: 김연아 Name: _______________
Kim [1]holds the highest scores ever for women in a short program, a free skating program, and the combined total under the ISU Judging System. Kim went to elementary school in Bucheon. Kim [2]is also the first and only ladie [3]to reached a total of over 200 points, and the first skater [4]to have received a +2.00 'Grade of Execution'[4] for jumps under the ISU Judging System. As of April, 2009, Kim [5]is officially ranked first in the world.

A. Look the underlined verbs. Which one is a mistake? ___________

What should it be? ___________________

B. Change these verbs into the perfect infinitive:

(e.g. walk � to have walked)

go - ___________________
eat - ___________________
take - __________________
speak - _________________
make - _________________

Make a sentence using 'train' in the perfect infinitive:

Kim is the first Korean skater _____________________ with a Canadian Olympic star.

C. There is one spelling mistake in the above paragraph. What is it? ____________

D. What would make a likely topic sentence for the above paragraph?

1. In the future, Kim will win many more medals.
2. Yuna Kim is one of Korea�s most accomplished athletes.
3. Skating is a difficult and demanding sport.
4. The ISU judging system is very competitive.
5. It is difficult for Koreans to achieve success in skating.

E. What sentence is irrelevant (does not belong)?
_________________________________________________________________________

[Nierlisse]

Although this is way too hard for my HS students, I just wanted to say that it's great! Maybe if I get rid of my rainy-day laziness, I'll get around to adapting it to fit my students. Good job!

[bobbybigfoot]

Yu Bum Suk:

That's fantastic! Props to you.

Do you know that's the first lesson plan I've ever seen? I've been in Korea nearly two years and have never had to do a lesson plan. I always just follow the books that I'm given. Mindlessly.

It is for this reason I'm thinking of leaving my hagwon job and transferring to the public system. At some point, I need to start making my own lessons.

I can't even call myself a teacher now.

[farrepatt]

Thanks. I'm going to give this a try with my teacher's class. It looks great and I'm from Toronto so they should find it interesting.

[pkang0202]

thanks! I'll definitely be using this. Please share more if you have.