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Today is the first day of the rest of your life! 

  9. Sept. 17         Time traveling reporter

10. Sept. 18         Lie game

11. Sept. 20         Law, crime and punishment

12. Sept. 21         First love

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9

시간 여행  기자

  Time Traveling Reporter

 

You are a journalist with a time machine.  Your assignment is to go back in history and interview some famous people.  What questions would you ask:

 

1.   Great King Se Joung

2.   Queen Sondok

3.   Kebek

4.   Kim Yu Shin

5.   Lee Sun Shin

6.   Emperor Hirohito

7.   Adolph Hitler

8.   Kim Il Sung

9.   Abraham Lincoln

10. George Washington

11. Mickey mouse

12. Mother Teresa

14. Greg

15. Greg's father

16. Santa Clause

17. Anybody else you’d like to interview!

                            

Try to think of three or four questions.  Other students will become the person you’re interviewing and answer them.

 

10 Lie game

 

Would you believe that when I was seven I lived on a farm in Austria and a hilicopter landed in the back yard of our house?

LIE, I lived in Austria then, but no helicopter landed in the back yard.

 

Would you believe my IQ cannot be measured?

TRUE, I used to give IQ tests, so I know all the answers to the major tests in English!

 

Would you believe that Gyeriong is one of my favorite cities in the world?

TRUE I love the old forests and clean air!  The people are pretty nice too!

 

OK!!!! Now it's your turn.  Tell us some stories, and we'll guess if they are true or lies.  Surprise us!

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11 Law ( ) – Crime (범죄 ) and punishment (  )

The following are just a few laws from the ancient ( 고대의 ) Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 BCE.

8. If any one steal (훔치다 ) cattle ( ) or sheep ( ), or an ass ( 당나귀 ), or a pig (돼지  ) or a goat (염소  )… he shall be put to death ( 죽음 ).

14. If any one steals the son of another (kidnapping), he shall be put to death.

22. If any one is committing a robbery (강도  ) and is caught ( 잡다 ), then he shall be put to death.

129. If a man's wife (아내  ) be surprised in adultery (불륜  ) with another man, both shall drowned (달래다  ) , but the husband may forgive (용서하다  ) his wife and the king his slaves (노예  ).

195. If a son strike (공격하다  ) his father, his hands shall be cut off (절단하다 ).

196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

202. If any one strike (공격하다 ) the body of a man higher in rank (높은계급의  ) than he shall receive sixty lashes (매질 ) with a whip (채찍  ) in public (공개적으로  ) .

What do you think should be the penalty (형벌 ) for the following crimes:

A. Theft (i.e. stealing from a house):

B. Robbery (stealing face to face)

C. Kidnapping

D. Adultery

E. A son hitting his father

F. Putting out another’s eye

G. Hitting someone richer than you

H. Murder (살인)

I.   Rape (강간)

 

I think the penalty for ________ should be _________.

                                    (crimes A-I)   

                                    

 

+ a whipping of ____ lashes

+ a fine of (벌금  )_____(how much money?)

+ __ years in prison (감옥  ) or a mental hospital OR

+ death by _______________.

 

Electrocution ( 전기사형 )   

Hanging (교수형  )   

Firing squad (shooting with guns) (총살  ),            

Torture (고문  ),        

Drowning (익사  )

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12     First love

 

Everyone has had a first love.  It may have been a childhood or teenage crush (puppy love).  It might have been later in the university.  Please tell us something about your first love.

 

WHEN WAS YOUR FIRST LOVE?

 

  • My first love was when I was about ___ years old.  I met him/her at ___________.

WERE THE FEELINGS MUTUAL?  (  )

 

  • I think our feelings were (not?) mutual.

WHAT WAS SPECIAL (  ) ABOUT HIM/HER?

 

  • S/he was _______________________________.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME  (  ) YOU SAW HIM/HER?

 

  • The last time I saw him/her was _________. (last week, month, year, __ years ago.

WHY DON”T YOU SEE HIM/HER?

 

  • I moved / s/he moved / ? / I still see him/her every: day, week, month, year, 10 years…

DO YOU STILL THINK ABOUT HIM/HER?  HOW OFTEN?

 

  • I (don’t) still think about him/her (_______________________________).

              once a day, week, month, year…)

 

HOW OLD WAS S/HE AND WHAT DID S/HE LOOK LIKE?

 

  • S/he was _____________________and_________________________________.

my age, older/younger than me and, tall, short, thin, fat, handsome, pretty

 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HIM/HER AGAIN?

 

  • I would (really or not) like to see him/her again.

 

WILL YOU SEE HIM/HER AGAIN?

 

  • I will ___________________________ see him/her again.

Definately not (  ), probably (  ) , probably not, don’t know if I will ever see him/her again.

Only a mature person, knows how to sincerely say: "I'm sorry."

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