Matthew TS#9

For this session, I met up with Fahad at Starbucks as per usual at this point. I asked him to tell me about his day at school, what he did, what he had learned for that day. Fahad told me that he had not attended school because he was sleeping all day. I began by explaining some new words related to my latest ankle sprain. I explained what a sprain was, what an ankle brace is, and the term "limping". Furthermore, I taught him separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. I explained that these are used pretty frequently in English and that they might seem strange like: "Bring up", "Hang up", "Talk over", "Ask out". I created sample sentences and kept redefining these words for him until he understood it. Occasionally, I would check his comprehension and ask for him to create a sentence for me. Then, i explained how inseparable words have to placed together and again, defined them for him. He had a difficult time grasping: "get over", "show up", and "get off". He really grasped the inseparable phrasal verbs such as: "take after" and "look after". I ended the lesson by giving him some sample songs he could listen to for his listening class. I also told him about the website "rapgenius" which gives you lyrics to just about any song. It was a fun lesson!