- Location: Novena - Central
- Duration: Up to 10 weeks
Course details
The Korean Basic Course is designed to provide students with basic communication skills in the Korean language. The course aims to foster the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing with related content.
Course Syllabus/Content
Basic 1
- A brief introduction of Han-Geul and Korean culture
- Greetings and meeting people
- Korean alphabet writing system and pronunciation
- Introducing oneself and asking for one’s name
- Asking the name of things
- Ordering in a cafeteria
- Talking about the location of a person and a building
- Telling the time
- Numbers Sino numbers and Korean pure numbers
Admission Requirements
As this is a beginner’s course, no previous knowledge of Korean is required.
Basic 2
- Telling the time, date, days and months
- Talking about daily routines
- Talking about past events
- Expressing negation
- Asking for and giving locations
- Giving the purpose of visit
- Talking about transportation
- Talking about how to get to somewhere
- Making suggestion
- Expressing prohibitions
Admission Requirements
- Completed Basic 1 or equivalent
Basic 3
- Talking about future plans
- Talking about possibility or ability
- Suggesting, accepting, refusing
- Buying vegetables or fruits/electronic appliances/clothes
- Asking how someone is
- Asking someone where he/she hurts
- Giving advice
- Talking about what you can do
- Talking about obligation
- Reading and writing letters
- Talking about free time activities/sports/obligation
Admission Requirements
- Completed Basic 2 or equivalent
Basic 4
- Making an appointment
- Expressing what one wants to do
- Talking about what one cannot or could not do
- Giving causes and reasons
- Telling purposes and results
- Positive and negative expressions
- Polite requests
- Inquiring about houses
- Talking about descriptions
- The comparative and superlative
Admission Requirements
- Completed Basic 3 or equivalent
Course Location
About Beacon International College
Beacon International College (formerly known as Beacon School of Technology) is a private education institution which is registered (ERF) with the Council for Private Education (CPE) in Singapore. Beacon has been approved for 4 years enhanced registration (200606284M- valid from 03/06/2014 to 02/06/2018).
It is set up to provide quality education to students who aspire to pursue a career in Information Technology, Hospitality, Business or Design.
Beacon's management team consists of former lecturers with more than 30 years of industrial and teaching experiences and senior executives who are qualified in their own areas of expertise. Together the management team possesses the breadth and depth of experience in academia, industry, business and corporate governance.
Beacon's lecturers are highly qualified professionals. A Number of them hold the Masters degrees.
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