1과–4과 종합 과제: 나와 우리 반Me and My Class
Chapter Objectives
This chapter introduces no new grammar. By the end of it, you will be able to:
- Introduce yourself and identify others using the copula and topic particle 은/는, combined without hesitation.
- Describe your family using 있어요/없어요 and the particle 이/가.
- State today's date, your birthday, and other important dates using Sino-Korean numbers and the particle 에.
- Combine identity, family, and date information into a single connected spoken and written self-introduction.
- Read and write Hangeul syllable blocks from all four chapters fluently, without sounding out each block letter by letter.
- Recognize and correct the most common errors from Chapters 1 through 4 in your own speech and writing.
- Complete an integrated performance task — presenting yourself and your class — using only the systems activated so far.
Communication Scenario
Kim Seongsaengnim's class is putting together a class booklet — 우리 반 소개 ("Introducing Our Class") — that every student will contribute a page to. Each page needs a short self-introduction: name, role, family, and an important date. Before students write their pages, the class reviews everything from the first four chapters together.
- This chapter does not teach anything new. Instead, it asks you to combine what you already know — from Chapter 1's greetings and copula, Chapter 2's identity and classroom language, Chapter 3's family and existence sentences, and Chapter 4's numbers and dates — into longer, connected Korean.
- By the end of this chapter you will have written and spoken a complete self-introduction that a real classmate could read and understand, and you will have practiced catching and correcting the mistakes that beginning learners make most often at this stage.
Unit I at a Glance
Before reviewing in detail, look back at what each chapter contributed to the systems you now control.
This chapter does not add a new box to this row. It asks you to use all four together.
Cumulative Vocabulary Review
No new vocabulary is introduced in this chapter. The table below regroups the most essential productive vocabulary from Chapters 1 through 4 by function, so you can check your recall before the performance task.
| Function | Korean | English meaning | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-reference | 저, 제 | I / me; my (humble) | Ch. 1 |
| Greeting | 안녕하세요? | Hello | Ch. 1 |
| Identity | 학생, 선생님 | student; teacher | Ch. 2 |
| Negative copula | 아니에요 | is not | Ch. 2 |
| Demonstratives | 이, 그, 저 | this; that; that (over there) | Ch. 2 |
| Family | 가족, 아버지, 어머니, 형제자매 | family; father; mother; siblings | Ch. 3 |
| Existence | 있어요, 없어요 | there is/have; there isn't/don't have | Ch. 3 |
| Connector | 하고 | and (nouns) | Ch. 3 |
| Numbers | 일, 이, 삼 … 십, 백 | 1, 2, 3 … 10, 100 | Ch. 4 |
| Date words | 월, 일, 요일 | month; day (of month); day (of week) | Ch. 4 |
| Time question words | 몇 월, 며칠, 무슨 요일, 언제 | what month; what date; what day; when | Ch. 4 |
| Time particle | 에 | on / in / at (a time) | Ch. 4 |
If any row is unfamiliar, return to the listed chapter before continuing. This chapter assumes recall of these items rather than reteaching them.
Hangeul and Pronunciation Review
No new letters, batchim, or sound changes are introduced here. This section consolidates block-reading fluency across everything you have studied so far.
누적 읽기 연습 — Cumulative reading fluency practice
Read each line aloud at a natural pace, without pausing between syllable blocks or reverting to romanization. Each line draws on a different chapter.
안녕하세요? 저는 학생이에요.
이건 책이에요. 그건 가방이 아니에요.
가족이 있어요. 아버지하고 어머니가 있어요.
오늘은 시월 십오 일이에요. 목요일이에요.
Up to this point you have mostly read isolated sentences. Real Korean texts, including your own performance task, connect several sentences in a row. Practice keeping your pace even from one sentence to the next, applying liaison and batchim pronunciation at each sentence-internal boundary just as you would within a single sentence.
받침 자기 점검 — Self-check: batchim across four chapters
Without looking back at earlier chapters, write the batchim consonant for each of the following words, then check your answers in the Answer Key.
- 학생 (student) — batchim in the first syllable?
- 있어요 (there is/have) — batchim in the first syllable?
- 십 (ten) — final batchim?
- 월 (month) — final batchim?
Grammar and Pattern Review
This chapter introduces no new grammar. The four patterns below are the productive core of Unit I. Each is shown once more, followed by a combined pattern that draws on all four at once.
복습 1 — Identity: 은/는 + 이에요/예요 / 아니에요
Review purpose: state who someone is or is not.
- 저는 지나예요. I am Jina.
- 저는 선생님이 아니에요. 학생이에요. I am not a teacher. I am a student.
복습 2 — Family and existence: 이/가 있어요/없어요
Review purpose: state who or what exists in your life.
- 저는 언니가 있어요. I have an older sister.
- 남동생이 없어요. I don't have a younger brother.
복습 3 — Dates and time: [month] [date]에
Review purpose: state when something happens.
- 제 생일은 유월 오 일이에요. My birthday is June 5th.
- 시월 십오 일에 시험이 있어요. There is a test on October 15th.
Notice that the Language Building Block above simply places three complete sentences next to each other. You already know how to connect nouns with 하고 from Chapter 3, but connecting full sentences with words like 그리고 and 그래서 is not scheduled until Chapter 11. For now, short separate sentences are the correct and natural way to build a connected self-introduction — do not try to invent a sentence connector on your own.
Practice — Combining the three review patterns
Using the pattern above, write three short connected sentences about a classmate, real or invented.
- Identity sentence
- Family sentence
- Date sentence (birthday or another important date)
Model Dialogue
Setting: Students are interviewing each other to prepare their class-booklet pages. Layla interviews Tom.
내용 이해 — Comprehension questions:
- What is Tom's role, according to what he says about himself?
- Who is in Tom's family?
- When is Tom's birthday?
- Does Layla have a younger brother?
- When is Layla's birthday?
Listening
Ask your instructor, a language partner, or a text-to-speech tool to read the following four short self-introductions aloud. Listen twice without reading, then complete the tasks below.
소개 1
안녕하세요? 저는 누룰이에요. 학생이에요. 언니가 있어요. 제 생일은 시월 이십삼 일이에요.
소개 2
안녕하세요? 저는 민준이에요. 형제자매가 없어요. 제 생일은 사월 십 일이에요.
듣기 과제 — Listening task: Listen and complete the table.
| 소개 | Name | Family | Birthday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ______ | ______ | ______ |
| 2 | ______ | ______ | ______ |
받아쓰기 — Dictation: Your partner or instructor reads the birthday sentence from each introduction once at natural speed. Write what you hear in Hangeul.
- (birthday sentence from 소개 1)
- (birthday sentence from 소개 2)
Reading
Below is a draft page from the class booklet, written by a student named Seonu. Read it and answer the questions below.
우리 반 책 — 선우 소개
안녕하세요? 저는 선우예요. 저는 학생이에요. 선생님이 아니에요.
가족이 있어요. 아버지하고 어머니가 있어요. 형이 있어요. 여동생은 없어요.
오늘은 시월 십오 일이에요. 목요일이에요.
제 생일은 십일월 삼 일이에요. 생일에 가족하고 있어요.
New vocabulary in this passage: 여동생 (younger sister, receptive — recognizable from the pattern of 남동생 and 누나 already studied in Chapter 3). This item is for reading comprehension only and is not required for productive use at this stage.
내용 이해 — Comprehension questions:
- What is Seonu's role — student or teacher? How do you know?
- Who is in Seonu's family? Who is missing from it?
- What is today's date and day of the week, according to the passage?
- When is Seonu's birthday?
- How does Seonu say they will spend their birthday?
Writing Workshop
This chapter's writing task is your contribution to 우리 반 책, the class booklet. It combines everything from Chapters 1 through 4 into one connected piece of writing.
- Greet the reader and introduce yourself. Use the greeting and identity patterns from Chapters 1 and 2. State your name and your role (student).
- Describe your family. Use 있어요/없어요 and 이/가 from Chapter 3 to say who is and is not in your family. Use 하고 to connect at least two family members in one sentence.
- State an important date. Give your birthday, or another meaningful date, using the month-then-date order and the particle 에 where it belongs, following Chapter 4.
- Revise. Check your draft against the editing checklist below before submitting it for the class booklet.
체크리스트 — Editing checklist:
- Every sentence ends with the correct form of the copula, 있어요/없어요, or another verb already studied — not a form from a later chapter.
- 은/는 and 이/가 are used correctly, not interchangeably by guesswork.
- Family members are connected with 하고 where two or more appear in one sentence.
- Sino-Korean numbers are spelled correctly, including 유월 or 시월 if either month is used.
- Month comes before the date, and 에 appears after the date but not after 오늘.
- Each syllable block is written as a complete, self-contained block.
- No sentence relies on grammar, particles, or endings not yet activated (Chapters 6 and beyond).
Speaking Practice
통제 연습 — Controlled practice: Chain review
Working with a partner or alone, say the three sentence types from the Grammar and Pattern Review section aloud, one after another, without pausing to translate in your head: identity, family, date.
의사소통 과제 — Communicative task: Class booklet interview
Work with a partner. Interview each other using the questions below, then report your partner's answers to a third classmate or to the whole class, following the model dialogue.
- 이름이 뭐예요?
- 학생이에요? 선생님이에요?
- 가족이 있어요? 형제자매가 있어요?
- 생일이 언제예요?
혼자 하는 연습 — Solo alternative
Record yourself giving a complete thirty-to-sixty-second self-introduction: greeting, name, role, family (with at least one existing and one non-existing member), and your birthday. Listen back and check your pacing, liaison, and word order against the Grammar and Pattern Review section.
Culture and Communication
A short structured self-introduction — name, role, and often family or hometown — is a common opening ritual in Korean-speaking classrooms, workplaces, and many first-meeting situations. The class booklet task in this chapter reflects a genuinely useful, everyday communicative skill, not an artificial classroom exercise: being able to introduce yourself smoothly in a short, organized way is valued across many social and professional settings.
Sharing basic family information, such as whether one has older or younger siblings, is common in everyday introductions, since Korean kinship terms like 언니, 오빠, 누나, and 형 are relative to the speaker's age and gender and often come up naturally in conversation. More personal or sensitive family information is generally shared only as a relationship develops, just as in most communities; a class-booklet introduction stays at the level of general, comfortable detail.
The self-introduction pattern practiced in this chapter is widely usable, but the amount of detail expected, and which details are offered first, can vary somewhat by setting, generation, and community, including among diaspora and heritage Korean speakers. As your Korean develops in later volumes, you will learn how self-introductions expand and adjust for more formal, professional, and public contexts.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
The errors below are drawn from Chapters 1 through 4. Watch for them in your own performance task.
Error: 저가 학생이에요.
Correction: 저는 학생이에요. — Use 은/는 to introduce yourself as a topic, as taught in Chapters 1 and 2. Save 이/가 for existence sentences and other contexts practiced in Chapter 3, such as 언니가 있어요.
Error: 아버지 어머니가 있어요.
Correction: 아버지하고 어머니가 있어요. — When listing two nouns together, connect them with 하고 rather than simply placing them side by side.
Error: 오 일 유월이에요.
Correction: 유월 오 일이에요. — Month always comes before the date in Korean, the reverse of common American English order.
Error: 오늘에 생일이에요. / 시월 십오 일 시험이 있어요.
Correction: 오늘 생일이에요. (no 에 after 오늘) / 시월 십오 일에 시험이 있어요. (에 required after a specific date). This distinction was introduced in Chapter 4 and applies whenever you state a specific date.
Risk: Trying to connect sentences with a full connector like 그리고 or 그래서, or trying to use past tense for a birthday that already happened this year, before either system is scheduled.
Guidance: Use short, separate sentences, as shown in the Language Building Block earlier in this chapter. Sentence connectors are introduced in Chapter 11, and past tense is introduced in Chapter 16. Simple, correct Korean within your current scope is always stronger than an attempted shortcut into unstudied grammar.
Chapter Review
Section A — 어휘 (Vocabulary)
1. List five family terms from Chapter 3.
2. Write the Sino-Korean numbers from 1 to 10.
3. Write four of the five time question words from Chapter 4 (몇 월, 며칠, 무슨 요일, 언제) and what each one asks for.
Section B — 한글과 문법 (Hangeul and Grammar)
1. Choose 은/는 or 이/가 for each blank:
- 저___ 학생이에요.
- 언니___ 있어요.
- 이건 책___ 아니에요.
2. Write your own birthday as a full Korean sentence, using correct month-date order and 에.
3. Correct the errors:
- 저가 지나예요.
- 아버지 어머니가 있어요.
- 오 일 유월이에요.
Section C — 독해 이해 (Reading Comprehension)
1. According to Seonu's booklet page, who is in Seonu's family?
2. When is Seonu's birthday?
Section D — 쓰기 (Writing)
1. Write a five-to-seven sentence self-introduction combining identity, family, and a date, following the Writing Workshop checklist.
Section E — 말하기 (Speaking)
1. Without notes, deliver your written self-introduction aloud to a partner. Your partner then asks you one follow-up question from the Speaking Practice interview list, and you answer.
누적 복습 — Cumulative review (Chapters 1–4)
This entire chapter has served as cumulative review. If any item in Sections A through E felt uncertain, return to the chapter listed beside it in the Cumulative Vocabulary Review or Grammar and Pattern Review sections before completing the Unit I Performance Task.
Unit I Performance Task
수행 과제
우리 반 책 — Our Class Booklet
You will create your page for the class booklet and present it aloud, combining everything from Chapters 1 through 4. No new grammar may be used.
- Written: Write your class-booklet page: a greeting, your name and role, a description of your family (at least one person present and, if true, one absent), and one important date connected to you, written in full sentences with correct particles, spacing, and 에 placement.
- Spoken: Present your page aloud to a partner or record yourself, then answer one unscripted follow-up question about your family or a date.
- Reflection: Write one English sentence identifying which system from Unit I (identity, family/existence, or dates) still feels least automatic, and one specific thing you will review before Chapter 6.
| Criterion | What is evaluated |
|---|---|
| Identity accuracy | Correct use of 은/는, the copula, and 아니에요 where relevant |
| Family accuracy | Correct use of 이/가, 있어요/없어요, and 하고 |
| Date accuracy | Correct number spelling, month-date order, and placement of 에 |
| Hangeul and spacing | Complete, self-contained syllable blocks and level-appropriate spacing |
| Pronunciation | Accurate liaison and batchim pronunciation in connected speech |
| Scope discipline | No structures used beyond Chapters 1–4 |
Answer Key
Batchim self-check
1. 학생: batchim ㄱ (학) 2. 있어요: batchim ㅆ (있) 3. 십: batchim ㅂ 4. 월: batchim ㄹ
Combined pattern practice (sample)
이건 누룰 씨예요. 언니가 있어요. 남동생은 없어요. 생일은 시월 이십삼 일이에요.
Dialogue — Comprehension
- Tom says he is a student.
- Tom's family includes an older sister and a younger brother.
- Tom's birthday is June 5th.
- No, Layla does not have a younger brother.
- Layla's birthday is March 12th.
Listening comprehension table
- 소개 1 — Name: 누룰. Family: has an older sister. Birthday: 시월 이십삼 일 (October 23rd).
- 소개 2 — Name: 민준. Family: no siblings. Birthday: 사월 십 일 (April 10th).
Reading comprehension
- Seonu is a student, not a teacher; the text states 학생이에요 and 선생님이 아니에요.
- Seonu's family includes a father, mother, and older brother. Seonu does not have a younger sister.
- Today is October 15th, a Thursday, according to the passage.
- Seonu's birthday is November 3rd.
- Seonu says they will spend the birthday with family: 생일에 가족하고 있어요.
Chapter Review — Section B
- (a) 저는 학생이에요. (b) 언니가 있어요. (c) 이건 책이 아니에요.
- (learner's own sentence, e.g. 제 생일은 팔월 십사 일이에요.)
- (a) → 저는 지나예요. (topic particle, not subject particle, for self-introduction) (b) → 아버지하고 어머니가 있어요. (하고 connects the two nouns) (c) → 유월 오 일이에요. (month before date)
Section D — Sample self-introduction
안녕하세요? 저는 [이름]이에요/예요. 저는 학생이에요. 가족이 있어요. [가족 1]하고 [가족 2]가 있어요. [가족 3]은 없어요. 제 생일은 [month] [date]이에요.
Check that: 은/는 introduces the speaker and 이/가 marks existing family members; 하고 connects listed family members; month precedes date and 에 is used correctly; all vocabulary and grammar remain within Chapters 1–4.
Looking Ahead
지금 할 수 있는 것 — What you can do now
You can greet someone, introduce yourself and identify your role, describe who is and is not in your family, state and ask about dates and days, and combine all of this into a short connected self-introduction, spoken and written. Your Hangeul reading and writing are fluent enough to handle multi-sentence texts without romanization support. You have also practiced recognizing and correcting the most common beginner errors from Unit I. This completes Unit I of Volume I.