TOPIK 1 Vocabulary for School

TOPIK 1 Vocabulary for School blog

School and study are core themes in TOPIK 1 (Test of Proficiency in Korean). Many questions focus on the classroom, studying habits, and daily routines of students. In this article, weโ€™ll look at a set of essential words, practice example sentences, and explore how they appear in TOPIK-style problems.

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Vocabulary Set: School and Study

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ดEnglish Meaning
ํ•™๊ตschool
๊ต์‹คclassroom
์ฑ…book
๊ณต์ฑ…notebook
์—ฐํ•„pencil
์‹œํ—˜exam/test
๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๋‹คto study
๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋‹คto learn
๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น˜๋‹คto teach
์“ฐ๋‹คto write
์ฝ๋‹คto read
์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜๋‹คto ask a question

Example Sentences with Translations

  1. ์ €๋Š” ํ•™๊ต์— ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ I go to school.
  2. ๊ต์‹ค์ด ๋„“๊ณ  ๊นจ๋—ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ The classroom is wide and clean.
  3. ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ I like reading books.
  4. ๊ณต์ฑ…์— ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ I write my name in the notebook.
  5. ์—ฐํ•„๋กœ ๊ธ€์”จ๋ฅผ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ I write with a pencil.
  6. ๋‚ด์ผ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹œํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ Tomorrow I have a Korean exam.
  7. ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ The students study hard.
  8. ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ†’ The teacher teaches Korean.

How Vocabulary Appears in Reading Questions

Reading tasks often focus on daily school life.

Example Question:

ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์ด ๏ผˆ ๏ผ‰์—์„œ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ‘  ํ•™๊ต โ‘ก ๊ต์‹ค โ‘ข ์ง‘ โ‘ฃ ์‹œ์žฅ

โœ… Correct Answer: โ‘ก ๊ต์‹ค

This checks if you understand school-related places.


How Vocabulary Appears in Listening Questions

Listening questions may include simple dialogues between teachers and students.

Example Question:

A: ๋‚ด์ผ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
B: ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๏ผˆ ๏ผ‰์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ‘  ์ฑ… โ‘ก ์‹œํ—˜ โ‘ข ์—ฐํ•„ โ‘ฃ ๊ต์‹ค

โœ… Correct Answer: โ‘ก ์‹œํ—˜

This evaluates if you can match context with the correct word.


How Vocabulary Appears in Writing Questions

In writing, you may complete short sentences using correct school-related words.

Example Question:

์ €๋Š” ๊ณต์ฑ…์— ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๏ผˆ ๏ผ‰.
โ‘  ์ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ‘ก ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ‘ข ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ‘ฃ ๋ฐฐ์›๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

โœ… Correct Answer: โ‘ก ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

This checks if you can use verbs with the right objects.


Why These Words Matter

School and study are among the most important topics for TOPIK 1 learners. These words are not only frequent in the exam but also highly practical if you are studying in Korea. By practicing them in context, you can improve your reading, listening, and writing skills simultaneously.

Conclusion

TOPIK 1 includes many questions about school and study, so reviewing this vocabulary set is an excellent way to prepare. Practice them in real-life situations and in exam-style problems to boost your score.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Keep practicing step by step, and success in TOPIK 1 will be within reach!


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