Aileen TS#2

For our second session my tutee and I dove into a discussion about the Lunar New Year. Having assessed during our first session that my tutee wanted to primarily work on vocabulary and listening skills I prepared some questions to ask about the Lunar New Year. I asked questions such as how is it celebrated in South Korea, whether or not there are rituals/games involved, and whether the holiday called for any special dress or food preparations. We then did a cross cultural comparison and I supplemented the conversation with the cultural differences of the US. It was an interesting turn because we started off with common board games in Korea, one being Yutnori to which I added Monopoly as a counter, and eventually went into a completely different tangent on artificial intelligence. As he did stress wanting to work on vocabulary I feel like we did cover a lot of ground in talking about different ideas. Also I noted that he does a good job of describing "around" a word that he doesn't know to which I am able to catch onto and offer him the word that fits. For example, he kept referring to his past fathers when talking about the Lunar New Year and once I told him he could use "ancestor" instead it seemed to click better with him and he was able to continue the conversation comfortably.