Saad Alburaiken
Date: August 2, 2017
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Location: All Saints
Cafe
Topic/skill: Grammar
(direct speech and reported speech)
Today
Saad and I worked on preparing for his grammar quiz on direct speech vs.
reported speech [another grammar aspect I was not familiar with, but was able
to quickly figure out!] For practice, I asked
him questions (direct speech), and he wrote down what I said as reported speech
(She said: "___."). Then, he brought up reductions--unknowingly--by
asking me about some phrases he's heard in movies and on TV, that it sounded
like: "Wah-jah." I repeated him a few times and realized he was
referring to the reduction of "what did you" into a
"whadja", which I wrote down for him to see on paper. He gets it. He's
smart. He also just recently finished watching the final season of "House
of Cards", and I know there are a lot of low-frequency vocabulary words he
has to learn in order to follow along with that show! I encouraged him to keep
watching shows/films along with English subtitles to facilitate increased accuracy
and fluency in his spoken communication.
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