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Korean Places Around Town

Fifth graders learn the names of places (장소, jangso) around town in Korean — 학교 (hakgyo, school), 공원 (gongwon, park), 도서관 (doseogwan, library) — and sort places you go to learn or shop from places you go to play.

Grade 5Places Around Town45 minutes1 class periodACTFL / World LanguagesExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name places.
  • ✓Tell learn/shop from play.
  • ✓Sort the places.
  • ✓Talk about town.
Essential Question

Where do you go around town? Let’s learn the names of places in Korean.

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Vocabulary Terms
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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Learn/Shop or Play?

Project this and sort each place into Places to Learn/Shop or Places to Play.

🏡 Sort each — a place to learn/shop or to play?Try it
🏫 Learn / Shop
🎡 Play / Relax
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The Lesson · Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

45 minutes, five moves

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Warm-Up — Around Town

5 min

Where do you go around town? Let’s learn places in Korean.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show a school & a park.
  • Ask their Korean names.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Places Around Town

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Learn/Shop or Play?
  • Sort each one.
  • Say them aloud.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Repeat.
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Practice — Practice

12 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a place you go.
  • Say if you learn or play there.
  • Say gongwon.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name it.
  • Say it.
  • Say it.
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Speak — Speak

10 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “Hakgyo-e gayo” (I go to school).
  • Name three places.
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Name it.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a place.
  • Say what you do there.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-Mid).

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Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand place words.

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Connections 3.1

Connect to community.

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Comparisons 4.1

Compare place vocabulary.

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: talk about town.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Place cards with romanization.
  • Sentence frame: “___-e gayo.”
  • Use pictures.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with hakgyo & gongwon.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Use pictures.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add yeok (station) & sikdang (restaurant).
  • Draw a town map.
  • Give directions.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🏡Place cards
  • 💻Learn/Shop or Play?
  • 🗺️A town map
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

장소 (jangso)place학교 (hakgyo)school가게 (gage)store도서관 (doseogwan)library공원 (gongwon)park바다 (bada)sea / beach집 (jip)home도시 (dosi)city
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
How do you say “school” in Korean?
학교 (hakgyo).
QUESTION 2
What does 공원 (gongwon) mean?
Park.
QUESTION 3
Is a 도서관 (doseogwan) a place to learn or to play?
To learn (it’s a library).

Reflect: places around town.

Have students name two places in their town in Korean. A printable Korean places sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: 가게 (gage), 공원 (gongwon), 도서관 (doseogwan), 도시 (dosi), 바다 (bada), 장소 (jangso), 집 (jip), 학교 (hakgyo)
  1. park
  2. school
  3. store
  4. sea / beach
  5. place
  6. library
  7. home
  8. city

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. How do you say “school” in Korean?
  2. What does 공원 (gongwon) mean?
  3. Is a 도서관 (doseogwan) a place to learn or to play?
Answer key — Part A: 1) 공원 (gongwon) · 2) 학교 (hakgyo) · 3) 가게 (gage) · 4) 바다 (bada) · 5) 장소 (jangso) · 6) 도서관 (doseogwan) · 7) 집 (jip) · 8) 도시 (dosi)
Part B: 1) 학교 (hakgyo). 2) Park. 3) To learn (it’s a library).