Jackie TP12

After our break, Sugia and I went into some more activities on building complex sentences. We did some worksheets involving connecting sentences, and also worked the other way around and broke them down. Then, we did my Reading Lesson, as it had to do with weather/weather disasters as well. So, we started to talk about facts and opinions, and why it was important to understand why one or the other was apparent, and how it would make an article an article or a journal or something else. We went through the fact/opinion worksheet, which she aced, then went through the Japan in Crisis reading. She read out loud, circled words she did not know, which I went through later again to ask her if she understood meaning of sentences to maintain understanding, and then also would circle any opinions she came upon. This lesson strayed a bit from fact/opinion and went into vocabulary/discussion of disasters. We talked a lot about idioms and expressions, and how some expressions seem to make no sense, but she knows how they translate into Korean. Since this was our last meeting, Sugia and I talked about our futures, and wished each other luck--her in her return to Korea in July, and mine to Italy in August. She told me she learned much from me in the little time we had together--but mostly about being able to speak quicker and with more comfort, which I think was most important in her learning overall.