Kari_TP5

This afternoon I met up with my tutee Sangwon and worked on his speaking skills. He has a presentation that he is doing next week on Tae Kwan Do and wanted to practice with me, so I listened to him speak and gave him a few pointers on pronunciation. Considering that he's not that great of a reader, he is an excellent writer and his speaking skills are very good too. With writing, he sometimes misses the smaller details like when to insert an "a" or "the" and I only saw a few words on his presentation where he had added an "s" on words that did not need plurals. To practice his speaking more, while he was giving the presentation, I asked him different questions like, "How do you think Tae Kwan Do gives children discipline?" or "How much do Tae Kwan Do lessons cost, and for how long do you take them?" He did very well on answering my questions and we even got in a little debate about whether parents should or should not have jobs in order to keep their kids behaviorally in check. Apparently Sangwon says no, but I took the side of yes. He said that growing up, his grandmother raised him because both of his parents were always busy working. To work on his reading skills, Sangwon also picked up a book from Goldstein which has a bunch of short stories in it, so I told him that if he has questions about words, he can either ask me or copy them down and look them up in the dictionary, and then try to use them in a sentence he wrote himself.