Katie- TP4

I practiced speaking with my tutee today. I downloaded an application on my iPhone so that she could listen to herself after she spoke for 45 seconds to answer a question. I showed her that forming an outline consisting of 4-8 words  during her 15 seconds of planning would help to form a fluent answer. She struggled with the 'or' sound, prepositions, and articles as well as a couple of a couple of unclear thoughts. After planning she improved very much and her fluency and her skills were productive.After about an hour of speaking practice, my TP told me many tales of her country. She explained that all the teacher are volunteer, that the government is corrupt and that she can't really talk about politics or anything she does in America. She says she is under the radar her, telling her country she works at the YMCA. She told me about the neighboring countries basically paying of generals to come take their natural resources like gold, oil, jade, and rubys. She said that the middle and lower class usually  make their money to eat, during that day. She also said if people are fat they are thought to be able to afford higher quality pork. Very interesting.