Chassity TS 8 w/Dongwoon

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, 5 July at 5:00am AEST (Zoom)

Student: Dongwoon Kang


Happy 4th of July ‘Merica! 😂🇺🇸🎇

My favorite holiday of the year and the first one away from home. 🥹🇦🇺

I digress.  Today’s session was jam-packed with idioms, role playing, and new vocabulary words.  Despite Zoom’s technological issues, Dongwoon and I pressed on.  Instead of assigning “fieldwork exercises” outside the session for this week, I decided to focus on “in-session fieldwork exercises” through the use of role playing activities.

Our “in-session fieldwork exercises” were centered on the discussion top of: ‘Traveling in Florida’ which is also a schema building activity.  It was really fun and Dongwoon’s confidence in speaking and writing have increased substantially.  During this session, I only made some minor corrections to his sentence structure, but he appears to be grasping the concepts quicker than before!

I did assign him some “fieldwork exercises” to complete outside of our sessions…more to come on the results!  Dongwoon indicated that I was a good teacher…totally unexpected, but I’ll take it! 😆  

It was very moving to hear him share those kind words.   

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