[모임공지] Minutes of the last meeting & announcement for the study on 2/8(a reply must be given to participate)

[Tia~*]

[NOTICE]

Since I'm trying to contain the number of participants within no more than 10

due to the nature of this study group and limited seatings,

current members are fixed as below.

It means that even though you've had an interview a long time ago and joined a few times

doesn't automatically give you the green light to participate.

If you happen to be absent more than a month in a row,

please give me a notice and I won't count you out

otherwise I would assume you're not willing to attend anymore

so unoccupied seat will be passed to a new commer.

CURRENT MEMBERS are...

Tia, Jay, Alyssa, (Sean), Andy, Kevin, Seokjun, (Sancho),

(Erin), (Hyoju), (Law), Simon, Gloria, (May), Alex, Alice, Rim

Minutes of the meeting on 2/1

    We had 7 English Talkaholics on 2/1, me, Jay, Alex, Kevin, Seokjun, Alyssa and Rim.

    We had a study in CNN cafe near Gangnam station as Myzone closed due to the big holiday, and I was quite surprised at the normal turnout regardless of holiday. I want to believe it was because our study is that much fun~ Am I right? ㅎㅎㅎ

    We started from small talks and casual chats as usual and had disccusions later on. Kevin put us into ardent participation by throwing a quiz and his hug was up for graps for the winner! ㅋㅋㅋ The quiz and his topic was about copy right. Victorious winner was Alex and all other members envied him. (Really?ㅎㅎ I did for sure.ㅋㅋ) We also talked about the program so called 먹방 at Africa, a beautiful lazy eating yummy foods, and CNN broadcasted this phenomenon that Korean people are watching it and even some of them are paying for it and we expanded on this issue why this kind of trends are spreading. I brought an sexual harassment case happened in university and it was a real story that I've heard and we shared ideas of how to deal with it.

    I prepared a discussion topic instead of debate which was extracted from the book, 'how to win friends over and influence people' written by Dale Carnegie, a world-famous best seller since it was published hundred years ago and counting. The excerpts in the article were 3 basic principles in handling people and we shared our own experiences regarding these techniques.

    We had 찜닭 together for lunch and I, Jay, Alex, Kevin watched 'Frozen' afterwards. The movie was quite cute and everybody were happy. :)

Alex is getting Kevin's hug for the quiz winning prize!ㅋㅋ

From front and clockwise, Kevin, Alyssa, Rim, Jay, me, Seokjun

at CNN cafe

From left, Alyssa, Rim, Jay, me, Seokjun

at CNN cafe

    Kevin, Jay, I had a cup of coffee after the movie having tons of chats and had supper together at 'Dos Tacos' and I loved that place!! That restaurant had such an exotic atmosphere with delicious mexican foods. The music, the lights, the interior, the foreign customers around us all combined was making us feel like we were somewhere far away from Korea, having beers. :) 

Kevin is serving water for us!ㅎ

I hope you can see the exotic mood in this restaurant 'Dos Tacos' through the picture~  

Happy? :P

    I ended up spending a half day (almost 12 hours) with talkaholics,ㅋㅋㅋ I got home almost 10 pm. ;; (I was at the cafe before 10 with Jay;;;)

    It was such a lovely and fulfilling day for me with a lot of joys!

   Thank you for coming 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 ~ 12:50  Vocabulary test from the article of previous debate.

                           Each participant are subjected to put 1,000 won and collected money is for the winner!

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 2/8 

 If you are already a member (Check the  current member list above)  

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/ Always happy Saturday! :)

[Tia~*]

The earliest bird!!^______^

[AliceJacqueline]

3rd/ Alice/ Hi! I am back to Korea. can't wait to see you!@_@

[Tia~*]

How was your trip, hun? Can't wait to hear your story!!!@_@

[Alex...]

4th / Alex / Do you want to build a snowman~

[Tia~*]

Suddenly, it popped up in my mind....You kinda look like a snowman~ 캬캬~~~ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Alyssa Y.]

5th/alyssa/you mean 울라프?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋdo you wanna build a snowman~ㅎㅎ

[Tia~*]

I wanna build a snowman~~~~ ㅎㅎ

[Seokjun]

6th/seokjun/see u soon

[erin.c]

7th/ erin/ long time no see :')

[Lucy13]

8th/Lucy/It is the first time for me to join this group. See you tomorrow~!

[kevinnn]

9th/Kevin/come on let's go and play!