Katelyn_TP_#7

On February 4th, I met Rasmane at CIES. He had been gone travelling the previous week, so we did not have a lesson--I was amazed when he told me about his trip. He went to Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York City, each for one day, over the last week, and got to see most of the historical landmarks like the White House and Times Square. Unfortunately, he and a few friends drove up north, and on the way back their tire burst. After catching up, we continued our lesson on prepositions. I drew a map on the board and asked him to identify places using "across from," on __ street," and so on. At our last meeting, I had also explained "through," but I wanted to try something a little harder and talk about "through" in the context of time. I started modeling sentences on the board--"Throughout high school, I played lacrosse," or "throughout the year, New York is crowded." It seemed that it was a bit too challenging though, so after a little while we just worked on some pronunciation. I had him read "The thinker thought his inn might be too expensive"--he has a lot of trouble with "th" and "inn" (saying "ff" and "heen")--and I explained "thinker" as a person who thinks. We discussed how the pattern "er" added to a verb often makes the word a person who does the verb: "writers write, thinkers think, joggers jog, jokers joke and players play." Finally, we talked about American slang and idioms. In Burkina Faso, they have slang too--he taught me the casual and formal word for "friend" in Moore--and I explained "chill/hang out."