David Kirsch TS #16

I met with Hyeon-Seop at CIES on July 24^th from 3:00-4:00 PM. For this session we continued to focus on Hyeon’s reading and speaking skills. As always, I started our session with a new article for Hyeon to read and had him answer some true/false questions about it afterward. The article was about someone talking about a wedding they attended in Sardinia and comparing it to the weddings they had previously experienced in the UK. I also had Hyeon underline any words that he did not understand. With this article, Hyeon seemed to only have trouble with a few very low frequency words like exuberance and delicacies. He also had no trouble answering the questions about the article. For the second half of our session we turned to speaking practice. Since Hyeon will be returning to Korea at the end of the month, we mostly stayed on the topic of what he would like to do or see in Tallahassee before he leaves. I recommended a few of my favorite local restaurants to him (Jim and Milts, Olean’s Café) as well. Hyeon also talked about his family and how his father was able to afford him the opportunity to come study in America before his required military service. His use of articles has continued to improve, and he required much less correction during our talk. It was an incredibly enjoyable experience being able to tutor Hyeon-Seop as he was very dedicated to the improvement of his English.  I hope that when I do finally get to go abroad to teach my students will be as eager to learn as Hyeon-Seop.