A small rule, written as a table first

The learning goal is modest and practical: students should be able to ask and answer using 은 and 는. The deck does not start with a dialogue. It starts with a table. On one side, nouns that carry a batchim — 동생은, 가방은, 제 이름은 — and on the other, nouns that do not — 저는, 안나는, 친구는. Batchim is the consonant sitting under a syllable; once students can see it, the particle choice is no longer a guess.

Only then do two short dialogues show what the particles are for. One asks whether father is a cook. The other asks whether a friend's younger sibling is a university student. The point is not the jobs themselves. It is that 은 and 는 mark the person the sentence is about, the topic, before the rest of the line arrives.

Job cards, and a pair who swap places

The practice list is split the same way as the table. Jobs with a batchim include 회사원, 선생님, 학생, and 공무원. Jobs without one include 가수, 의사, 요리사, and 변호사. Picture cards go up one at a time, and learners say out loud whether there is a batchim before they pick the particle. The screen itself keeps the test in view: 받침이 있어요, or 받침이 없어요.

Pair work follows a clear order. Partners are chosen; one person asks, the other answers; then the roles reverse so both people try the question and the answer. After each round they give each other a little feedback on pronunciation or grammar. A closing sentence frame lets them introduce a friend by name and job. The teaching notes suggest that the instructor read the English directions once and model a pair before anyone starts, and that the English glosses on the job table — office worker, teacher, doctor, chef, police officer — are there so beginners can pick up a new word quickly.

Why a trainee might borrow this shape

If you are writing a mock lesson of your own, the useful shape here is order, not decoration. Rule table, then dialogue, then picture cards that force the batchim test into speech, then a pair activity whose steps are written in a language the beginners already have. Fifteen slides is not a long class. It is long enough to move from seeing the consonant to using the particle in a question about someone's work.

Sources

1. A fifteen-slide campus mock-lesson presentation for a beginner Korean class on the topic particles 은 and 는, including pair-work directions and a Korean–English job-word table.

Last updated: 14 November 2026