Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Speaking Partner Experience # 1

Today, was the first time I met with my speaking partner, Ismenia Maia, from Brazil at 11 A.M. my time, which was 4 P.M. her time and we are discussing Math 106. We started out with introducing ourselves and our lives to each other. Ismenia is from Brazil and she works at home and on the internet. She has two kids, one is 7 and one is 5, and she is married to a man also from Brazil, but who is from a different city. She likes to listen to music, loves going to church, and loves going to the cinema with her family. I then took the opportunity to introduce myself and we then traded back and forth on facts about ourselves.

It is summer there, according to Ismenia, and it is very warm in the summer. We also played a game of two false facts and one true fact. I told her I like to swim, ice skate, and have been to all the Alberta temple. The only one that was true was the swimming.

-Ismenia likes to dance - true
-Ismenia likes to run - false
-Ismenia likes ice cream - true

Ismenia read a paragraph for me and she only needed help with pronouncing one word, which was awesome. We then discussed questions about mathematics and also worked on pronunciation of math vocabulary, which Ismenia did very well at for her first time doing this.

NOTE: Work with Ismenia on grammar in speaking, as she said her Pathway teacher said that she sometimes uses improper grammar when speaking and she needs to work on it. I promised her that we would work on the grammar in her speaking next time we met.

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