KellyMichael-TS#10

Today I met with Sang Hyun from South Korea for a third time. He had stated before he wants to work on his conversational english, and I agree it's his weak point. The problem is that he is hesitant to speak. So when you are trying to carry on a one sided conversation, at some point you feel like you are just talking to yourself. Usually when I hit this wall with Sang Hyun, I try to prompt him with questions. This gets a response, but its usually muttered and "tip-toeing" around the grammar mistakes that are inevitable. At first I present a topic that might be new to him because I feel it is easy to speak about new things and what you think about them, and also I think it opens up asking questions by the student as a conversation prompt. After the new topic is stalled out, I will ask him about things from his life because I feel its also easy to talk about things we go through every day. This time we talked about the Korean military and his service career. At the end of the session, he asked for help with modal verbs so ill plan accordingly.