Kari_TP7

This afternoon I met with my tutee Sangwon and we mainly went over errors that he had made in one of his essays. The main problem he had was with articles like "the, a, an". In Korea they do not use articles, so he was having a lot of trouble with them. Depending on the sentence he was using or needing the articles in, I would break down in the format of nouns, objects, or events and explain to him what would be acceptable for what and when it wouldn't be acceptable. Once I broke down the sentence and individual parts, he caught on really fast and even came up with different scenarios and different forms of the sentence that could use the same articles. Like with the sentence, "I have lunch this afternoon." At first he had, "I have lunch at this afternoon." Later after fixing it he switched it to,"I have lunch in the afternoon." Sentences that had no specific time like the "afternoon" he had trouble with, or with words like "culture" because sometimes it could be a specific object and other times it was more broad, so I spent time explaining when those words could be an individual or general thing so he would know when to use an article. After we were done with the actual tutoring and reviewing, Sangwon really wanted to show me some Korean music videos. (Earlier the movie Howl's Moving Castle had been on tv-it was Yuki's movie and we had been talking about it earlier) What was really funny about them was that they were really similar to western music videos in terms of girl's singing, props, weird random scenes that make no sense whatsoever and the image of having sexy girls all over the main singer. Then Yuki came over and pulled up the same music video but in a parody style that was performed by male comedians and really overweight male dancers. This reminded me a lot of the American movie series Jackass. So...I pulled up the ending song from Jackass 2 and showed him that America is very similar in parodies of music videos. He and Yuki thought it was hilarious, so we ended up browsing youtube for more clips from Jackass, and Sangwon kept asking, "Why do they do this?" I kept telling him that they did it just because they could and also that they were professional stunt performers and loved doing this. He was really baffled by the things they did (riding a teeter totter with an angry bull, putting leeches on their eyes, hitting each other with medicine balls in a dark room, etc.) but found it funny all the same.