For my 4th meeting i had i met up with Young one day after class and we just hung out and talked and he asked me to correct him on his grammar, like i mentioned earlier Young wanted to take a much more "casual" approach to the tutoring for lack of a better word and by doing this his hopes were to more easily assimilate into american college culture by growing accustomed to casual speech among americans.we mostly hung out again and talked about our mutual interest
For my 5th tutoring session I met up with Basil on campus and we sat and went over some of his work for about an hour or so. This included review of some of his speech homework about his home of saudi arabia. We then began to talk about what kind of music he likes, he used to listen to american rap music before he even began to study english and now that he's been studying english he can actually understand what they are saying which is definitely important because rap music more so than other genres of music is very lyric based.
For my 6th tutoring session i met up with young, we met on a saturday to go over some writing homework and just hang out and talk. This was a free saturday for me because FSU didnt have a game. After going over some of Youngs work and some vocabulary/slang i told him about the typical gameday in tallahassee when FSU has a home game, young being somewhat unfamiliar with the American "tailgating" custom, we told him about american slang terms with regards to drinking and football and even invited him to come to a tailgate after a tuttee session the following weekend.
For my 7th tutoring session I met up with Basil at the CIES building after a day of classes, I believe it was the monday before Thanksgiving started so I brought some reading material about thanksgiving to go over with basil, reading wasnt something we had focused on really so far so i thought it would be a good to 1. practice reading and 2. teach basil a little bit about the american holiday. of thanksgiving.
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