Cp#9 Pamela The Traveling Man

September 30th hH has been several weeks since I've talked with Hameed, I had only met him once. he's been a very busy person. I was happy to hear that he wanted to meet again. He was nervous about taking the TOEFL, because he plans to pursue the doctorate program starting in the spring semester in the area of topography Hameed said he had been traveling around the country visiting family and friends in California, Texas, and Alabama. He asked if I could teach him some common American phrases to say when he meets his friends. I'm assuming that he means his American friends. he want to learn how to properly include words like 'cool', 'I got this', ' no problem ', common words we as Americans may take for granted. We use such phrases so freely that we fail to think that it may not be understood by people outside our culture. We discussed a dozen expressions that he could use in his converdation with his friends and collegues. I also included some common idioms in one of my lesson plan that I had written for tje TEFL class. Yes, the lesson plan came in handy and we were able to role-play several conversational situations in which idioms were used.