Julia TS #10

Dojun and I met today, February 21st. I prepared a list of common idioms to teach him. I found an exhaustive list online, and picked ten that I thought were the most commonly used. I remember Dojun mentioning that he was interested in learning more vocabulary, and so I thought that idioms would be an interesting and more challenging form of vocabulary. I included phrases such as "all ears", "beats me", "get the hang of", and the only phrase that he was already familiar with was "to blow (something) out of proportion". I gave explanations and examples for each, a fill in the blank activity with the phrases, and gave him opportunities to ask questions. I had already planned to have him create sentences with each phrase next week, which was perfect when he told me that they are hard to fully understand without seeing or hearing them used multiple times. We also talked about the death of Kim Jong-nam and I was interested in the input that he added about how defects from North Korea are being protected in South Korea.