[모임공지] Minutes of the last meeting & announcement for the study on 1/18(a reply must be given to participate)

[Tia~*]

Minutes of the meeting on 1/11 

    We had 7 English Talkaholics on 1/11, Me, Jay, Alyssa, Seokjun, Simon, Alex and Kevin.

    We had some chats catching up each others a bit and devided into 2 groups, women's group and men's by Alyssa's suggestion.ㅋㅋ In the group I belonged to, Alyssa brought the hot issue of commercializing medical sector, and we shared our views over the issue. Jay asked a question what kind of imaginative thoughts we had,(she got that question from the movie 'the secret life of Walter Mitty') which was all sooooo cute. :) I talked about 'how wealth make us mean' from the speech in Ted that I recently saw, and had a discussion how we could avoid those undesirable patterns in our behavior as we got richer or step up to higher position in society. I believe men's group had as much fun as we had. I'm always so wondering what kind of things they talked about.ㅎㅎ

    We debated on the institution of 'cali' which is the fictitous system that makes people unaware of whether a person is pretty or ugly.(This idea is from the novel, named 'Liking what you see' writted by Ted Chang.) This system could root out lookism, and expansively sexism and racism in the end which are embeded deeply in our society, but is it ok to deprive the ability from an individual against her/his will? Jay, Alyssa, Seokjun supported the idea, and I, Alex, Kevin, Simon were on the opposing side, and elaborated on our reasoning.

   I, Alex, Simon, Seokjun had lunch together in the Japanese curry restaurant and expanded our chats to another social issues.

    Thank you for coming and your ardent participation and hope to see everyone again this Saturday! :) 

 Itinerary (Every Saturday morning 11:00~14:00)

1. FIRST CLASS - Say hello :)

11:00 ~ 11:30  Introduction / catching up each other and grouping

Each group will consist of no more than 4 talkaholics for the second class.    

2. SECOND CLASS - speaking chance in a small group

11:30 ~ 12:20   Each English Talkaholic will be given the chance to present their topic

                            and we will have a discussion in a group.

Prepare your own topic that you've found interesting and share with us with one question on it to discuss together.  

12:20 ~ 12:30  Time for a break!

3. THRID CLASS - Bloody debate!!  

12:30 ~ 12:40  Vocabulary test from the article of previous debate.

12:40 ~ 13:10  Rephrase paragraph by paragraph and check the vocabularies

                           while reading the debate topic.

13:10 ~ 13:30  Divide into two opposing subgroups.

                           Each subgroup to prepare for battle, i.e. build up their strategy for a debate

13:30 ~ 13:50  Let the fun begin - time for a bloody debate between the subgroups!!

13:50 ~ 14:00  Final comments by each member

Preparing yourself for debate beforehand will display you as a good speaker and debater. :)  

4. AFTER THE STUDY - Optional

14:00 ~             Dealing with the aftermath - time for lunch and/or coffee to unwind and relax

Continue all the chats and talks!!!!

Even for this hour, we'll be still speaking in English hence English Talkaholic~~~ :)

 To participate the study on 1/18 

 If you are already a member,

step1.

Please leave your name as a reply to this post. (Example : 1st/ Tia/ I'm in!!)

step2.

Prepare your own topic(anything is ok!!) together with one question that you wish to discuss for the second class 

step3. 

Read and prepare the debate topic beforehand and think up reasons to support your side 

 If you are new and wish to join, reach me at my cell O1O 22O6 O957 for a brief interview.

Interveiw is mandatory to participate.

If you're looking for an advanced level group,

If you're keen to study hard and improve your English skill,

If casual chats are no longer enough for you,

you'll be the right candidate.

We will expose you to english-environment as much as possible to meet your strong desire to speak in Engish by using ONLY English EVEN DURING the lunch time~~ :)

  ONLY 2 RULES YOU HAVE TO ADHERE TO in the study

SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH

Why we're defying the strong desire to sleep in

and struggling to come and study

is

to improve our English, isn't it?

Then I want you to have as many chances as possible to practice English!!  

We're speaking in English even during the lunch time, 

so please everybody stick to this policy! 

BE PUNCTUAL

Due to the nature of the study, Punctuality matters.

The late arrival means you're intrupting others 

which will lead us to using our precious time inefficiently. 

Please, be on time. :)

If you happen to be late, please join during the break.

[Tia~*]

1st/ Tia/ Weekly joy!

[Tia~*]

Welcome on board!!!!

[kevinnn]

3rd / kevin / kind of early bird!

[Tia~*]

It's sooooooo cute, the way you put 'kind of' ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[JayC]

4th/Jay/ 4 more days to go

[Tia~*]

waiting for Saturday desperately!

[Simon01]

5th/Simon/will be there!!

[Tia~*]

Glad to see a lot of 'early bird's when it comes to leaving a reply~ ㅎㅎ

[AliceJacqueline]

6th/ Alice / can't wait to see you all!

[Tia~*]

See you soon dear~

[Seokjun]

7th/seokjun/the money is mine ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Tia~*]

Are you sure?! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Alex...]

8th/Alex/wont be late this time

[Tia~*]

I'm glad to hear that ㅎㅎ

[Tony10]

9th/Tony/ see you there

[Tia~*]

See you!!! :)

[Jimin]

10th/May/ See u~~

[Tia~*]

May I hear a bit more of your story hopefully over the lunch? :)

[Jimin]

I feel like i have to do this time^^ see u

[Alyssa Y.]

11th/alyssa/i will try to be an early bird ^@^!!!!

[andy2011]

12th/Andy/Wow!! 12 people~~ ^^

[Benjamin[k]]

13th/Ben-new commer/ see you