Level 5 · Unit 8

Kimjang day

A hundred heads of cabbage on the roof of Room 302's building

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What you’ll learn

V/A-(으)ㄹ 법하다 · V/A-(으)ㄹ 만도 하다Quite likely · understandable — a reasonable guess and a reasonable feeling
V-(으)ㄴ 끝에 · N 끝에After a long … , at last — a result that took a struggle
V-아/어 내다 · V-아/어 대다See it through · keep on and on — two helping verbs
N치고(는) · N치고 + negativeFor an N … · every N without exception

Sori’s tips in this unit

Two suffixes spelled -식: 食 (food) and 式 (style, ceremony)
How sure are you? -(으)ㄹ 것 같다, -(으)ㄹ 법하다, -기 마련이다
Helping verbs after -아/어: a map
Also in this unit: -노라면 (recognise only)

The scene opens

G

Grandma Soonja

자, 배추 백 포기야. 어제 다 절여 놨으니까 오늘은 씻어서 속만 넣으면 돼. 다들 장갑 껴.

Right, a hundred heads of cabbage. I salted them all yesterday, so today we just rinse them and put the filling in. Gloves on, everyone.
M

Manager Nabi

고무장갑 열 켤레 가져왔습니다. 가게에서 제일 두꺼운 것으로 골랐습니다.

I've brought ten pairs of rubber gloves. I picked the thickest ones in the shop.
점장님까지 오셨어요? 일요일인데 집에서 쉬실 만도 한데요.

You came too, Manager? It's Sunday — no one would blame you for resting at home.

Inside the unit

1
SceneA short scene with Sori, Hoya and the people around them, every line with its English
2
Grammar4 patterns: why you need it now, the rule, a table and examples
3
Sori’s tipsExceptions, reasons and easily confused pairs
4
Hoya’s notebookLife in Korea, in Hoya’s own words
5
Words39 words, which go into your spaced review
6
PracticeFill the gap, build the sentence, pick the reply — and fix Hoya’s mistakes
7
Review roomQuestions from this unit and earlier ones, each marked with where it comes from
8
Read & writeA short reading with questions, and a writing task with a model answer
9
Cheat sheetThe whole unit on one printable card