The Golden Ax Work-Book

Abstract

I first saw a wall-full of this series at Kyobo Book in Seoul in July, '04. I bought one copy, came home, and worked to order the full set of thirty booklets, workbooks, and audio cassettes from the publisher. Each set cost 9,800 Won. I have divided that cost among the book (6800 Won), booklet (1000 Won), and cassette (2000 Won). This workbook has a number of activities based upon the story. The first activities involve tracing words and matching words with definitions. The next activities depend upon the cassette: listening and circling the correct picture, listening and circling the missing word, and listening and unscrambling the sentence. More scrambling and crossword exercises follow, as well as exercises in identifying speakers and matching questions with good answers. In the next exercise, one needs to match a picture with a statement from the story. The two final exercises in the first half of the workbook involve arranging statements in the correct order and finding the right question for the supplied answer. Further activities involve the cassette. Notes at the end present eccentricities of English idiom. The last pages seem to give a complete Korean text of the story.