Takuya and I met up at Starbucks again for our next tutoring
session. We found a table outside and began working. I brought out the tongue
twisters Ariel and Ivy had so much fun with, and we went over them in a very similar
manner. He loved them and was amazed when I attempted to recite a few as
quickly as I possibly could, laughing if I stumbled over a word or few. He
liked them so much he asked me to email him all of the ones we worked on
together so he could practice.
Once we went over the tongue twisters, I brought out something that had
been discussed in the TEFL course, situational scenarios.
I gave him a few prompts, including the example we used in class: “You
were supposed to meet up with BLANK, but forgot. This was the second time in a
row. BLANK calls you and says, ‘Where are you?! This is the second time! I
waited for you for 20 minutes!’ What do you say?” I asked this question four times, and filled the blanks with a
different subject each time. Taku had to think of how to respond to this
situation depending on whether the subject was his very good friend, boss,
girlfriend, or mother.
This activity let him analyze and compare how he uses English in real
life speaking situations. He spoke more casually to his friend, formally to his
boss, extremely apologetic to his girlfriend, and promised to make it up to his
mother by taking her out to lunch. He enjoyed this activity and asked a
multitude of cultural questions, even asking about the body language involved.
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