I met with
Daehwan on Wednesday, August 7th in
the CIES lounge. We did more work with giving directions. Part of his mock
speaking exam involves announcing changes to an itinerary. The only major error
I noticed was that he would add articles when mentioning nouns. For example, he
would say, “We will be having lunch at the
Bear Café” instead of properly saying,“We will be having lunch at Bear Café” I had to tell him
that the article isn’t needed when referring to specific nouns. Aside from
that, I didn’t see any other issues with his answers. Daehwan definitely showed
improvement in making up answers. I think that after I gave my pregnant lady
sample in our previous tutoring session, he realized he could be a bit absurd
with his answers. Hopefully he’ll make use of those crazy storytelling skills
in the actual exam.
I had a similar issue with articles with my young tutees. That is a great way to explain it though because even I forget exactly why articles are not always necessary >.<
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