Keunhwa TS#8

Date/Time: Sep. 25/ 04:30~06:00

Location: LeLoy Collins Main Library

Topic/Skill: Field trips of American middle and high schools, Pronunciation Packet/ Speaking, Pronunciation

Feedback provided to tutor, Hannah: I asked Hannah about her middle school field trip, because I have to prepare a presentation for my English class.  I’ve had a unique experience of a three-day field trip as a teacher which means that I took charge of making reservations for resorts, restaurants and many places for sightseeing.  She told that she’d had day trips in her middle and high schools. When she was a student, she lived around Orlando, so she could go to theme parks.  She told that she could have had an abroad field trip if she had had a European history class.  Some foreign language high school students have their field trips to England or the U.S. but it is a big burden to their parents as Hannah said.  

And then we stated to study the sentence stress part.  She read aloud those sentences and I marked stressed words in sentences.  She told that she did not say like that with friends.  I agree on this, but I can’t hear every word people say when I hear news or fast speeches of native speakers.  I thought that I could not hear every word because native speakers did not stress every word.  If not, still I do not get familiar with some sounds of words, or I do not know some words.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutor, Hannah you learned: I learned differences between Korean and American field trips.  A tree day field trip is not common in the U.S. and if a class takes a field trip, five or six chaperons are needed. 

I still have a question about listening.  I do not need to hear every word when I hear English, but I hear every word when I hear Korean.  Is this my misunderstanding?