David Kirsch TS #15


I met with Hyeon-Seop at CIES on July 22nd from 3:00-4:00 PM. I started this session by having Hyeon read an article I found about a hotel that has rooms designed to have the guests step into the lives of a famous person (Elvis, Marilyn Monroe etc.) and then had him answer a few true or false questions. He successfully answered all of the questions and only had one word in the article that he underlined for us to go over (wardrobe). For the last half of the session we turned to speaking skills. We first went over a few more idioms that I looked up to see if he could guess there meaning. He correctly guessed ‘When pigs fly’ on his first try but was completely stumped by ‘Costs and arm and a leg’. We discussed their meanings and I used them in example sentences to make sure he understood. For the last few minutes we chatted about the things he is doing in Tallahassee before he leaves like pre-gaming at a friends house before going to his first American club.

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