Erfaan Mahmoodi TS #13


My second tutoring session with Salem - there had been a long delay due to illness on his end - happened at his apartment. Using his study sheets as a reference, we reviewed the usages of synonyms such as “ought to” and “should”, and the differences in appropriate contexts for requests and demands. I illustrated a pyramid to show the differences in formality and informality of different statements. An interesting situation we ran into during our session was of a pronunciation issue: Salem pronounced “electricity” like “electric city”, in a sentence where we were applying transition words. This lead to a brief digression where I presented the word “eccentric” as a contrast to “electricity” in its pronunciation of the letter “c.” From my minimal knowledge of the Arabic language’s system of words, I was curious if the pronunciation “electric city” was an English-language reflection of how Arabic words and their suffixes are pronounced in the language. The overall focus of our lesson was on the correct usage and pronunciation of a variety of colloquial and academic words related to transitions and etiquette in requesting.

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