Joseph Bayliss TS#5

Today, June 28th, I met with Hyo Sang Yong in the computer lab of the Hecht House. Much of this session was comprised of Hyo Sang and me combing through the idiom sheet he brought last time. As before, I would have Hyo Sang give me examples of an idiom in use, and then I would correct any problems afterwards. This time, I attempted to construct communicative scenarios for the aforementioned idioms. This allowed us to cover multiple idioms in a realistic, conversational context. Hyo Sang and I got many laughs out of this, and it seemed like he was picking up the proper usage of the idioms much faster with this method. In addition to this, Hyo Sang expressed confusion regarding determiner usage and how it related to the words "other" and "another", and as a result, we spent a lot of time going over this relationship. We also targeted some confusion arising from prepositions and gerunds, though in both scenarios, Hyo Sang's misunderstanding was quickly rectified by teaching methods similar to the one employed during the idiom lesson. For our next meeting, Hyo Sang said he will bring a list of confusing slang and grammar modifications that he compiled while watching The Office. 

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