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Level 7 · Unit 5

What an introduction does

A red pen in the graduate lab

Sori and Hoya

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What you’ll learn

  • V-고자 하는 바 · N에서 V-고자 하는 바는 N이다 · -고자 하는 바를What … aims to — naming the purpose in a report

Sori’s tips in this unit

  • Three purpose frames, and -기 위함이다
  • Bundle card: 한편, and the hedge -는 측면이 있다
  • What goes in the introduction and the method section
  • Words with -적 (的), and 견강부회

The scene opens

  1. Hoya

    안나 씨, 퇴근하고 바로 왔어요. 보내 준 서론은 버스에서 다 읽었어요.

    Anna, I came straight from work. I read the introduction you sent on the bus.

  2. A

    Anna

    와 줘서 고마워요. 세미나 보고서 서론인데, 교수님이 반으로 줄여 오라고 하셨어요. 전공 밖 사람 눈으로 보면 어디가 길어요?

    Thanks for coming. It's the introduction to my seminar report, and my professor told me to cut it by half. To someone outside the field, where does it drag?

  3. Hoya

    솔직히 앞의 두 문단에서 길을 잃었어요. 연구 목적이 어디 있는지 찾느라고 앞뒤를 몇 번이나 오갔어요.

    Honestly, I got lost in the opening two paragraphs. I went back and forth several times looking for where the aim of the study was.

Inside the unit

  1. 1
    SceneA short scene with Sori, Hoya and the people around them, every line with its English
  2. 2
    Grammar1 pattern: why you need it now, the rule, a table and examples
  3. 3
    Sori’s tipsExceptions, reasons and easily confused pairs
  4. 4
    Hoya’s notebookLife in Korea, in Hoya’s own words
  5. 5
    Words42 words, which go into your spaced review
  6. 6
    PracticeFill the gap, build the sentence, pick the reply — and fix Hoya’s mistakes
  7. 7
    Review roomQuestions from this unit and earlier ones, each marked with where it comes from
  8. 8
    Read & writeA short reading with questions, and a writing task with a model answer
  9. 9
    Cheat sheetThe whole unit on one printable card