Brieara TS #7

Date/Time: July 17th @4pm w/ YeonHee

Location: FAMU/FSU Engineering

Topic: Writing

Summary: In this session, we went over the edits I made on her essay over the weekend. Many of them were small mistakes and didn't impede on my comprehension of what she was saying. Since she is upper intermediate/advanced I made my edits mostly grammar-based and worked on explaining different grammar topics. This was one of our more slower sessions because we had to work together to figure out why some things work in English and others don't... I'll have to make a list of some of the things that confuse me and are a little more difficult to elaborate on. To wrap up our session, I asked her what American topic she wanted to talk about on Friday and I will create a vocabulary list in advance of some very American specific topics or terms related to that subject! We will be talking about the life of American high schoolers and university students. 


Lessons Learned: When writing, it seems that she will mix up when to use or not use articles depending on singular or plural objects. This can be something that we add to our list of things to work on in upcoming sessions. Writing is hard to explain, but easier to correct since we can see what we are working with. 

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