Amberly TS #15

 Zhou and I met at Lucky Goat on August 3 from 3-4pm. 

I taught him reduced form and speech patterns in this lesson. I read off each reduced form and asked him to repeat it to me and if he knew what it meant. I would clarify what each reduced form was and then ask him to use it in a sentence. He did not know that there was a term for this American speech style. I then taught him speech patterns for various contexts. I decided to teach this by referring to a list of speech acts. I taught him how to greet, apologize, and write a text. Zhou already has experience with emails and academic settings, so I decided not to teach him about speech patterns in professional settings. I decided to teach him how to show emotion by applying his knowledge of curse words in showing anger. Zhou mentioned to me that he struggles a lot when trying to show emotions in his speech. I also taught him about passive aggressiveness. Many native speakers often try to save face by using passive aggressiveness, so I decided to teach this to him.