Alycia TS#15

Date/Time:              2018/6/28          6:30AM - 7:30AM
Location: Skype
Topic/Skill: Speaking and Listening
Summary and Feedback:
ITMHTN Episode - Maybe Aliens?


As we normally do, Dojun and I began with a conversation about random topics to work on his conversational listening and speaking skills. Today we were discussing the world cup again, both in South Korea's performance and how the North American countries will be cohosting the next men's world cup in 2026. After our conversation we moved into a recap of the episode he selected. I had him recap each story individually and then clarified the points that he missed. Today's episode was actually fairly difficult. The topics discussed were fairly strange, but did actually relate to why he studies English, working for and airline! One thing that was helpful about the difficulty of this episode was that I was able to show him that even native speakers do not always understand what is being said in their own languages. Ultimately he still got the main points of the actual news stories correct, but he had a hard time keeping up with the conversation between the two hosts.

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