Hunter TS#8

September 16 at 12:00, I met with Luis who had previously discussed working on his reading with me.  I found an article online from an EFL site for upper-intermediate students.  It was an article on the author's personal experience with a tornado.  He spent approximately fifteen minutes reading, after which I provided him with a series of inference questions I had prepared based on the reading.  He had difficulty with two of the questions:  One asked about Calamity Jane, who was she?   The article only mentions that the author was in the same area that Calamity Jane was once in.  I showed him that from the context in the following lines about miners looking for gold in the area a long time ago, we can assume that she was a pioneer in the area during the time of the Gold Rush.  The second question referenced a group of bicyclists that the author ran into while fleeing from a tornado.  When the author tried to warn the group of the tornado, they laughed and replied, "Tornado? Why would there be a tornado?"  The question asked:  Why would the bicyclists react this way?    Luis replied that perhaps they were tourists (the area that the author was in was Montana.)  While a good inference, I explained that tornadoes are uncommon in the state of Montana and that the bicyclists must not have expected for there to ever be a tornado.