Keunhwa TS#13

Date/Time: Oct. 15/ 03:40~04:40

Location: at CIES students’ rest place

Topic/Skill: The book Hannah was reading for her assignment, Scope scholastic/ speaking and writing

Feedback provided to tutor, Hannah: She was busy with her unexpected assignment, so she brought her book, titled ‘Toshie’.  I asked her as many questions about it as possible.  I was interested in why and how the author found her, Toshie, because the writer came to her recently and she was born in 1920’s.  After listening to Hannah’s explanation about her stories and the Japanese time period when she spent her youth, I came to think of my mother’s case, which seems similar to Toshie.  I told her my mother’s experience of leaving her hometown to make money and Hannah told me about her mother.  Then I asked about pronunciations of contractions, which are difficult to recognize in conversation. She took many examples of them and tried to find cool video clips. Before we finished the tutoring, I asked about a snore which I hadn’t thought about before. She explained the meaning of a snore and why those sentences are a total snore.

 

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutor you learned: She is the first grandchild who will graduate from FSU, so their grandparents are proud of her. Her mother got married to her father before she graduated from a college and have a baby, she could not finish her education. Hannah still remembers her mother worked during the day and studied at night when she was young. Then her mother continued her study and finally got a PhD.  Her mother’s story made me think that people in the U.S. consider education more valuable and precious.  In daily conversation, I’d better use contractions to sound more natural.  In writing, I should make the length of sentences more diverse. That’s because   the same length and rhythm of sentences make readers boring.