TUTORING PARTNER 4 – Shayan, Meeting 1
Today I met with Shayan who is usually my conversation partner, but with his permission, we treated this meeting more like a tutoring session than a conversation session, given that he had wanted to increase his familiarity with idiomatic expressions. We reviewed some of the material from the book which I had checked out for him from the public library. This slowly evolved into a conversation about media and its distortion of several words associated with coverage of Afghanistan. We discussed the ideas surrounding these words and broke down the reasons why they might be misconstrued or abused. When appropriate, I intentionally threw in colloquialisms as modeling, most of which were at least somewhat familiar to him. We closed out the session by discussing how to continue reinforcing the skills he wants to work on.
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