Single Mother's Regimen
SINGLE MOTHER'S REGIMEN
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- What kind of music do you like?
어떤 음악을 좋아하세요? - Do you play any musical instruments?
악기를 다룰 줄 아세요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
06:00 am: BZZZZZ (Alarm) Brush teeth. Take a shower. Take a shower. Turn on TV news channel.
06:10 am: Make coffee and cereal.
06:15 am: Eat cereal and drink coffee. If I'm lucky the children don't wake up and I have 15 minutes to read the paper.
06:30 am: Toss clothes in washer and get children up.
06:40 am: Still trying to get children up.
06:45 am: Drag children out of bed.
06:50 am: Fix breakfast for kids and prepare their school lunches.
07:10 am: Get dressed for work.
07:20 am: Make sure children are dressed for school, teeth brushed, shoes tied, and hair combed/brushed.
07:25 am: Put makeup on so I look presentable.
07:30 am: Makeup half on, shuffle kids out the door for school.
07:40 am: Drive to work.
8:15 am: Arrive at office. Lots of responsibility, salary only fair, but the work is interesting.
Noon, Most lunch hours I go to dentist or shop for the kid's necessities and phone my mother.
01:00 pm: Back to work until 5 p.m. or later.
05:00 pm: Go to day-care center and pick up children.
05:45 pm: Finally make it home. The traffic is terrible.
05:46 pm: Get mail and go through past-due bills.
05:50 pm: Start dinner, something affordable and quick, fight children off from cookie bar.
06:00 pm: Do breakfast dishes and set table.
06:30 pm: eat dinner.
07:00 pm: Make children do homework and take baths.
07:00 pm: Insist that children do homework and take baths. Clean table and do dishes.
08:00 pm: Help children finish homework.
08:30 pm: Sit down to watch TV. Referee fights between the kids. Answer question about sex. Explain why dad doesn't see them, why they can't have new clothes, and why they don't go skiing "like other kids."
09:00 pm: Do washing, ironing, mending, pay what I can on the bills, write stalling letters to keep creditors off my back.
10:00 pm: Go to bed.
06:00 am: BZZZZZ (Alarm) Another day.
Dialogue Practice
Practice the dialogue with your teacher.
선생님과 대화를 연습해 보세요.
- What does the woman usually do at lunch?
- Does she do the breakfast dishes in the morning?
- Why isn't her family financially well-off?
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
'gonna'는 구어체 축약형으로, 글이나 격식 있는 대화에서는 'going to'를 사용해야 합니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
What DOes It Mean
1. look presentable
2. day-care center
3. Traffic is terrible.
4. past-due bills
5. Start dinner, something affordable and quick
6. Write stalling letters to keep creditors off my back
Extra Practice
- Why are modern people busy?
- Do you think they are really busy or do they just pretend to be?
- How could they have more free time?
- Could technical developments in the future allow people to have more free time?
- Are modern people happier than those of 30 years ago?
- Describe your daily routine. BE AS PRECISE AS POSSIBLE> 7, What is your definition of happiness?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: SINGLE MOTHER'S REGIMEN
Level: Middle Advanced (M.A)
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