Jules TP-9

Yesterday Jae and I got some tutoring done at the lovely What Café. I wanted to reward her for all her hard work on article adjectives, so we talked about some of the most commonly used English idioms. She really enjoyed the comparison of "It's as easy as pie" with "It's a piece of cake". I had a worksheet printed out wherein each phrase was introduced, defined, and then an example was given. After learning each phrase, she filled in a blank with an example in her own words. She truly learned some phrases that were useful to her experience ("I'm sick and tired of my aunt running my life!", for instance). Even during our break she learned the phrase "My lips are sealed", which came up following a little girl talk we had :) The list of idioms was pretty exhaustive (over 100 in total), so we are going to revisit it at our next session.