Thursday, November 14, 2013

Jodie CP # 8


I met with Carlos for conversation.  As usual, he was very eager to speak in our conversation session.  He told me about the writing assignments he had to do.  He shared with me that it was difficult to write in the American form of writing.  One of his “papers” was on crimes and the justified reasons for some minor crimes that people committed due to poverty and the need to survive.  We discussed that his paper needed more convincing proofs to support his argument.  We also worked on saying some big numbers such as 4,234,800, 6,013,500…

Carlos is working hard on words that begin with an “r”.  It seemed that letter gave him a lot of trouble.  Even when I asked him to repeat the words a couple of times, I couldn’t understand what he tried to say.  They were not comprehensible.  In other areas, I saw improvement since our first conversation.  He is working very hard in all of his CIES classes and the TOEFL class.  He loves to listen to music to learn English.  I introduced a different era of music to him, John Denver’s, and he seemed to like it a lot.  He wants to improve in his pronunciation.  I sent him some websites that provide good pronunciation practices for ESL students.   

Carlos is very motivated to learn.  He tries very hard and is aware that he is older than many in his group who were also sent by the Brazilian government to America to learn English and to pursue their studies in American universities. 

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