Richard -- Tutoring #5

On Monday, Kyung and I focused our attention on telling stories by looking at picture sequences. For this lesson, I focused primarily on speaking exercises, as I wanted Kyung to tell me a story based on the photos I had/drew.

So I had this picture book in which I asked Kyung to identify certain parts of the picture. Of one, he would say, "The woman is wearing a dress." Then I would ask him, "What color is her dress? Why is she looking at the hat?" For Kyung, the latter question confused him a bit.

I reminded him the title of the picture book, which was "Shopping Day." I asked him what people did on shopping day. Of course, it was obvious. "They shop..." he muttered. I happily exclaimed in the typical Richard fashion.

"The woman in the red dress is shopping," he said. This would continue on a bit until he could tell a story using the picture sequences. There were moments of pause in-between so I could tell him what an item was that he would not know. It was like playing "Where's Waldo?" I love that game!

Basically, I asked a series of questions in relation to shopping in America, which I hope he understood as my attempt to show him the American customs of shopping, i.e. the culture of it.

By the end of the lesson, he totally got it. "The woman is shopping for a hat to go with her yellow dress. She did not like some hats. None were the right fit. (If ya'll ain't familiar with this story yet, think about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.... it's totally the same story!). The last picture showed the woman very happy. She found her hat, and Kyung was able to tell this story by looking at pictures. /End of lesson.