On February 16, 2019, I talked to DJ for the fifth time, from 9:18 till 11:25 pm, through Skype in my bedroom. I was very excited to share things I had learned in the classroom with him. For example, I taught him how one sentence can have several different meaning depending on which word you stress. Then I typed different sentences, asked him to say them several times, each time stressing different words, and then I'd ask him what he think it meant based on the word being stressed. I also went over words that are shortened in casual conversations, such as gonna and wanna. He actually already knew about them but he asked me if people use them at work. The last thing we talked about was the use of colons and semi colons. This conversation session was a little more academic than the other sessions, but I was able to teach him about casual conversations, which is what he has always wanted to focus on.
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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