Isik TS#5 with Michaella Malone

Tutoring Section 5 with Michaella

Date/Time: April 6, 2016/ 4:00 p.m.-5:00p.m.

Location: French café/pastry: Au-Peche-Mignion

Topic/Skill: Idioms and Opinionated Writing/Writing an opinionated essay for the Article: “Air France Faces Backlash Over Veil Policy on Route to Iran” from New York Times Web Site: http://myti.ms/1q3IHJN

Feedback provided to tutee: MIchaella brought me idioms:

1. Stick my neck out

Meaning: taking a risk for someone else

Example: Why should I stick my neck out for them? They never paid me back before

2. All thumbs

Meaning: clumsy and awkward

Example: I’m all thumbs because I’m so nervous for my test.

3. Spilled the beans

Meaning: told someone before they were suppose to know

Example: he was planning on surprising her with a vacation, but her sister spilled the beans.

4. Hang on

Meaning: to persevere; to not give up

Example: the business had many years of financial trouble, but somehow they were able to hang on.

5. Money talks

Meaning: Money has the power to influence people

Example: We’ve been waiting 3 months for our delivery, and people who put their orders in after have gotten theirs. I guess money talks.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:  I read the article and underlined information that I used for my writing, and I wrote my opinionated essay;

“One of the international business strategies is to deal with cultural requirements of host country. Air France wants to make a business with Iran; however Iran has a standard dress code for female flight attendance. Air France accepts it and sent a memo to the employees.

Two opposite views reacted to this decision. The national Union of Flights Attendances responded to memo as “an attack on freedom of conscience.”  Air France relented, saying the assignment would be voluntary. Airline also said to le Monde, the French newspaper “This obligation, which therefore does not apply during the flight, is respected by all international airlines serving the Republic of Iran.

Women dress code shouldn’t be a business strategy or competition tool between companies. Union made an effective step up to protect women employees. “