David Kirsch TS #10


I met with Hyeon-Seop at CIES on June 28th from 2:00-3:00 PM. Since I had the interview questions on hand from my earlier tutoring session, I decided to also do a mock interview with Hyeon-Seop for the first half of the session. I asked him questions about a hypothetical mechanical engineering job with Hyundai. He struggled somewhat with using correct articles in his answers so we went over when ‘a’, ‘an’, or ‘the’ should be used. For the second half of our session I had him read a news article about the G20 summit that is set to take place in Japan this summer. I had him underline words or phrases that he did not understand so that we could go over them. The vocabulary in the article was very technical, so it was an adequate challenge for him. One of the things that confused him was the use of the word ‘chair’ when it was used to indicate that Japanese Prime Minister Abe would be leading the summit. At the end of our session, Hyeon-Seop said that he found the mock interview to be a good challenge and wanted to do another one in the future.

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