TS Sanghun September 15, 2020 9 am – 10 am

 Sanghun warmed up with several sets of minimal pairs. After doing the pairs, the next step was generating sentences with each as we have been doing. I then asked him to find a context in which his sentence would fit. We worked through several pairings primarily focusing on the ‘l’ and ‘r’ sounds. Next Sanghun talked to me about his favorite foods in Korea (he prepared a short discussion in advance). I took time to ask questions which forced him to elaborate on each question. He is much more comfortable when speaking about things he is more familiar with, as we all are. My primary focus when carrying out the dialogue was to get him to speak most of the time. Whenever he had issue with vocabulary or pronunciation we took our time to work through it. Finally, in order to get him thinking and talking things through we worked through 25 short answer speaking questions that I found on the TOEFL website. The questions varied from hypothetical (where would you travel to in the world if you could now), to personal (who do you look up to and why). These questions were well designed to get him thinking. I also asked him to “think out loud” so that we could brainstorm and generate ideas together.