Emily TS #15

Date/ Time: 3 May 2017 @ 10 AM

Location: Skype

Today was my final Skype session with Dojun and it was a bit sad, he has been an excellent student and a privilege to teach. So, with this in mind I decided to fill our final lesson with one of every exercise I have used with Dojun over the past few weeks. I started our session by having Dojun watch a video describing the US Government’s system of checks and balances. Dojun then answered a few comprehension questions, which he got completely correct. After our video segment I then had Dojun listen to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and, much like last week, fill in missing lyrics. Dojun told me that much like “Piano Man” from last week this song was also popular in South Korea, but that he had not heard the version I had shared with him by the Hawaiian artist Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. After the song I had Dojun watch his final Friends clip in which the gang plays a game in which they have to list all 50 states. As usual, I had Dojun tell me what happens in his own words and answer an active listening question. Dojun asked me if I could name all 50 states and I, quite honestly, told him that the one time I tried to list the states with a friend much like in the video, I missed two states: Iowa and Idaho. I then asked Dojun how many states he could list and he got to 10, but I argued we should discount two because he used both Iowa and Idaho. With Dojun I have learned a lot about how equally important content and topic is when it comes to listening activities in English learning. It has been great fun to work with Dojun, and I hope that I have many more students like him in the future.