Teacher notes — Grammar for Korean Speakers
I Very Like It: The Adverb Mistake Korean English Speakers Make
- Board the wrong sentence first ("I very like pizza") and ask the class if it sounds right — most will hesitate, which is the opening you want.
- Keep the adjective/verb sort exercise short; the goal is pattern recognition, not memorizing a rule they can recite but not use.
- Watch for false positives: "very surprised" and "very tired" are correct because those are adjectives in English even though they translate from Korean verb-like forms (놀랐어요, 피곤해요 — nollasseoyo, pigonhaeyo). Don't let students overcorrect these.
- Higher levels can handle "very much" placement rules (after the verb, or after the object) — lower levels should just drill "really" as the safe substitute.