My fourth tutoring session with Dojun was so funny! During our last tutoring session we discussed Korean vs. American television so I thought it would be fun to watch a clip of one of the most American shows I can think of....Saturday Night Live. As I was preparing for the session I was finding it difficult to find appropriate material for him. There were some clips that would be the perfect speed, but then it would require to much American schema to understand why its funny. Then the opposite would also happen when the necessary schema was not so high, but the speed was too fast. Then I finally found the right set of clips...the cold open Donald Trump skits!
Oddly enough, both Donald Trump and the actor, Alec Baldwin, who portrays him on SNL, speak simply enough and with just the right speed for an intermediate level English speaker. Haha
Dojun thought it was super fun and he enjoyed asking me questions, and said that it was the exactly the right level of difficulty. I plan on using more fun ideas like this for our sessions.
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