Wonderful Life

< Difficulty Level : ★★☆☆☆ >

< Purpose >

1. This reading material is for  vocabulary learning. There are about 60-70 hobby words in the reading material. The words are not far from our daily lives, rather it is very practical for our daily conversation. Some words are even naturally used like korean. So, the hobby list will be useful and somewhat authentic for students, although this can be intensive reading in terms of vocabulary learning.

2. This activity will be done before the chater 3 class. (out-class)
 By doing this activity, students can build extensive knowledge about the kinds of hobbies.

3. The reason why this is relatively low level material in advanced level class is for making students comfortable and confident about the following chapter class. If they know about many kinds of hobbies, they will be hardly afraid of learning new topic in the textbook.


< Procedure >

1) Pre-reading:
 Students will write down all the hobby words list that they know.
 Teacher  will give worksheet of hobby list that has blanks for the meaning of words.

2) While-reading:

 URL: http://www.squidoo.com/the-world-s-biggest-list-of-hobbies#module159053940

Students will read the words and highlight the important and interesting words that they like to try as a hobby. And then they will underlie the unknown hobby words. 

3) Post-reading:
 
After reading the hobby list, students will look up the unknown words in the dictionary and fill in the blanks with Korean meaning in worksheet.
And they will select 3 items for their frequent hobbies, and 5 items for their future hobbies that they want to try someday, adding simple reasons.