April 13
I started our session off a little differently today and we listened to the Stevie Wonder song "Superstition" while following along with the lyrics to the song, pausing after each verse to explain what superstition is, and the implications of things like the number 13, breaking a mirror, seeing a black cat, and other superstitions in American culture. After we listened to the song, I asked In-hwa if there were superstitions in the Korean culture and had her describe some to me. I thought it was really strange that the reason why the number four was unlucky is because is it the same word as death in Korean. Afterwards, I had In-hwa read a short selection on superstition and answer some multiple choice questions that I found on a TEFL website. We did the questions orally and I found that In-hwa's reading comprehension is good and that she can respond fairly well based on information from the text. After this activity we reviewed listening and production of <l>/<r> and <s>/<z> sounds with some minimal pairs, and introduced minimal pairs with <z>/<j> sounds.
In-hwa usually likes the normal structure of our tutoring sessions but it was good to change it up for today and do some work that was a little less formal and more culturally informative.
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