Dear Ms. Johnson,
Good afternoon, Ms. Johnson. I’m Gaeun, the President of the Association of Korean Studies. Thank you for your e-mail, I really appreciate it. We will have a conference next month at the Walker Hill Hotel. It will be held on June 3rd at 2 p.m. in Seminar Room on the 7th floor. You [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Scenario 5 – Dear Ms. Johnson,
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The King’s English
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The King’s English is a book written by Fowler brothers, published in 1906. It is about English usage and grammar. Besides, it mainly deals with British English.
Scenario 2 – Dear Mr. Kim
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you for e-mailing me. I’m sorry to hear about the late delivery of your order. Your Newsweek magazine for this week was supposed to deliver to you on 19th, the day before yesterday. However, there was a serious strike in a delivery company, so we had to wait until they get to work again. We tried [...]
Scenario 6 – Dear grandma
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How have you been, grandma? It’s been a long time since I saw you last. I’ve been busy doing school work these days. Mom and dad really want to see you. Well, the reason why I’m writing an e-mail to you is that I want to ask you something. Guess what! We are having a [...]
Good Will Hunting – Thumbs up!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve seen many movies recently, but any of them fully satisfied me. For that reason, I’d like to talk about Good Will Hunting. It is about a young man who was incredibly smart in mathematics, but had no dreams. He met a mentor of his life and his teacher changed his life. This movie is [...]
King Sejong, the most influential Korean figure in history
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my opinion, King Sejong is the most influential and important Korean figure in history. He was the fourth king during the Chosun Dynasty. He was born in 1397 and died in 1450.
There are mainly three reasons why I think he is important historically. First of all, he directed making science instruments. Hae Si Gye(a kind of [...]
The Most Embarrassing Moment
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It must have been 3 years ago, when I was a high school student. I used to go to school by bus. It was summer and the bus was full of people. I wanted to sit on a chair but there were people already on chairs, so I had to go to school, standing.
Suddenly, the [...]
The First Album of Westlife
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was 14 years old, a seventh grade student, my father gave me a small gift for my birthday. It was an album of a music group. I didn’t like it first, because 13 songs in that album were in English and I don’t know little of English at that time. However, day after [...]