Lesson 5. Tracing Korea's Traditions
The lesson 5 includes a main story about the National Folk Museum of Korea. Learners would be able to know not only general themes of the museum but also some specific information for ‘while reading tasks.’ At the end of the text, there is a ‘Visitor Tips’ part which learners would look for details in order to visit the spot. I believe that the authentic reading contributes to the textbook’s authenticity and context-embedded tasks.
I chose some reading texts contain spots’ information for ‘out-of class extensive’ reading because main text itself is just describing the folk museum. Therefore, students would get the perfect opportunity to practice ‘finding specific information’ from authentic texts about other kinds of famous places. In this sense, I can say that self-accessible readings for the chapter is also ‘genre/function-based.’ Learners would read text as well as other reading genres such as chart and list. I’m sure that following treasure hunt activity is beneficial for learners to know how to handle those kinds of text.
Target students for the activity are 3rd grades in high school and their level should not that high since I chose easy readings (However, at least low-high level is required because of vocabulary level.) In addition, I collected texts about two interesting museums in Korea, a Korean national park, a famous island in Korea, and Universal studio in Hollywood, US. The reason why I took ‘Universal studio’ is that I want learners to do authentic tasks, supposing that they need some information about the spot out of Korea. The case is very plausible. In other words, people could be in such a situation where they’re going on a trip abroad. Therefore, I hope the activities are helpful for students in their future life and become a trigger to study English as well.
