Working on the Weekend

Today is the first cloudy and little rainy day.  But we are inside enjoying the beautiful homework.  Carol is way ahead of me in that she has already had her first session with her student and is able to get the hard stuff done like transcribing a 20 minute conversation verbatim.  I have my meeting tomorrow at 5 with my student from Lake Como, Italy.  I am looking forward to learning a lot.  We are both lucky in that we have young and energetic people to work with. 

We took a break and rode the tram all around town and went to our favorite vegetarian restaurant for an early dinner.  The town has a whole area full of vegie places.  We had watched the show “No Reservations” when he was in Prague and we thought we might starve to death, but just the opposite is true as usual on our travels. 

This is Carol again. I’m burnt out from all the homework this weekend but I thought any readers might find my student interesting.  As Jerry said we  each have a one on one assignment.  My student is Vugar who is a 20 year old young man from Azerbaijan.  He comes from a well educated family, his father is a PHD in physics and his brother is a computer programmer.  He has been studying English for only two years and wants to take an exam in August that will allow him to get into British schools.  Although he has a  long way to go, he has learned a remarkable amount of English in a short time.  He has all the typical problems the students have with correct tense forms (remember that word from HS English) but his pronunciation is excellent and he understands  very well.  We did a taped interview, a reading exercise, a listening exercise and writing sample.  Now I get to do the “error analysis”.  We wanted an adventure and we got it!