Madison Elford TS #2

06/24/2021

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper Fox Coffee Cafe

This session went smoother than the last. I realized how many mistakes even I, as an native English speaker, can make. We spent about fifteen minutes looking for one word that he needed for his homework. I showed him different ways to find words (google translating from his native language, using a thesaurus, and looking for antonyms to find the opposite word). This resulted in the word Genuine. And when I went to tell him how to spell it, I couldn't do it. He probably thinks it is weird that a native English speaker cannot spell correctly. It is probably very different from a character based language like Chinese. I think it was a good thing for him to learn though. Xing is very focused on how bad he is at English, (because people have told him that in the past) without realizing that most English speakers are pretty bad at English grammar/spelling as well. I hope to help raise his confidence more because his English is very good and he should be proud of making it so far in his second language. 

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