Francisco TP-7

Areum e-mailed me on Wednesday to see if we will be meeting on Thursday, our usual meeting day. I confiremd our meeting and we met during teatime on June 16th. Aruem began our conversation by telling me that she wants to practice speaking because she feels as if that it is the subject she needs the most help on. I told her I would love to help her speak so I asked her a few basic questions on how her weekend went. After that, Aruem pulled out a sheet with a variety of idioms and expressions. I could tell that Aruem did not understand the majority of these so we began looking at the idioms one by one. I found it humorous how some of the idioms that were on the sheet were considered to be extinct. Seriously, some of the Idioms I had never heard of. They probably dated back to the 50's or 60's. Anyhow, I began to explain some of the idioms to Aruem. One of the idioms that she did not understand was "bring home the bacon." I explained to her that this idiom is not normally used today. It is an expression that was probably more popular back in the a day. Another expired expression that I explained to Areum was "fit for the gods." I used an example to try and explain this expression to Aruem and said "this steak is amazing, it is fit for the gods!" I then began targeting common idioms that are used on a daily basis here in America. Such idioms included: "chill-out" "hang-out" and "bump into." Aruem took note of these idioms by highlighting them. I then asked her to use these idioms in an example in order to work on her speaking skills. It took Areum a while to figure out how to use them in a sentence but she eventually did. Some sentences were even said flawlessly. Before our session ended, I asked Aruem if she could meet me one last time on Friday morning for our final tutoring session. She smiled and agreed to meet at 8:30 am on Friday.