Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Nahid TS#1 & 2

Tutee: Boram Kang
Date and time:  September 4, 2015 12:30-2:30

I am really happy to have a student like Boram.  We got along very well on our first session.  I met her in Dirac and we sat down in the tutoring section.  She seems very enthusiastic about learning and I am glad I have such a dedicated student.  To begin the session, I wanted to get to know her and where she came from.  She is from South Korea, she has a son who is 9 years old and her husband is doing his PhD in English Literature.  I made a list of topics that interest her the most.  Some of the subjects she has interest are: feminism, cultural studies, human rights, documentaries and animal rights. We found out that we have many things in common and I told her about a couple of documentaries that she can watch that include the topics she likes.  I told her about my studies in sociology and how I am interested in working in the fields of human trafficking and she was very intrigued my the idea.  I love her curiosity and she raised a lot of great questions about social issues.  She told me that she wanted to practice conversations and learn more about modern slang.  I told her the meanings of several abbreviations and slang that are used within our age-group and we made a list of that as well. I told her about TedTalks that we can watch and clips that would help her practice listening and understanding modern-day slang and terminology.

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