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Look closely at the GIFs below. Find the gesture or meaning that describes the GIF on the worksheet. Follow the directions on the worksheet.

Look closely at the GIFs below. Find the gesture or meaning that describes the GIF on the worksheet. Follow the directions on the worksheet.

Look closely at the GIFs below. Find the gesture or meaning that describes the GIF on the worksheet. Follow the directions on the worksheet.

Look closely at the GIFs below. Find the gesture or meaning that describes the GIF on the worksheet. Follow the directions on the worksheet.

As people of America might already know, K-pop songs sometimes has English lyrics to it. Nowadays, K-pop songs don't only have English lyrics but even lyrics in other languages like Spanish or Portuguese. For example, a popular girl group called GFriend released their debut song Me Gustas Tu which is Spanish for I like you. Other older K-pop groups are following that trend as well like Super Junior with Mamacita, and Lo Siento, IU with Havana, and U-Kiss with Te Amo or even KARD with Hola Hola. From OG groups like Super Junior to the latest hot group like KARD, K-pop is slowly globalizing to accommodate their fans world-wide. Here's Lo Siento by Super Junior with color-coded lyrics. Here's Me Gustas Tu by GFriend. Do you like how they have infused Spanish into their K-pop song? What other languages would you like to hear from K-pop in the future? Do you think this is a trend that will continue for a couple more years or is this is? That's all K-pop ...

It is amazing how much music can travel across cultures to spread between nations speaking different languages and sometimes not even familiar with the anything the song says.  Back in the fall of 2018 I took the literacy class in the MTSL program. Part of our course was to help middle school students at Shaw to improve their literacy skills. I have noticed how much K-Pop was popular among the students there. Within my interaction with the students, I got to learn that a lot of them are fans of K-Pop bands. Many of these students are originally from the Marshall Islands and many of them are not familiar with Korean at all. Music is a language of its own. even without lyrics, we can move our body to the beat.  From a language perspective, it is interesting to analyze the impact that music in general have on the world. Then look closely at how it can positively ‘light up’ a person’s life. It is true that they might never have thought about learning Korean but they must have...