I met with Koo on the CIES patio today. When she walked over I was watching a PBS TV series she had recommended to me. It's called "The Kimchi Chronicles" and I'm learning a lot about South Korean cuisine from it. Somehow Hugh Jackman ended up as the host for the show. Okay.
Koo asked me to go over a not-for-credit assignment with her. It was a worksheet with a word bank at the top, which asked Koo to write a paragraph using all twelve words. I thought this was a needlessly difficult assignment, as many of the words were not practically related, whatsoever. Anyways, Koo had made a go for it, and I think she did well. However, she continually made the mistake of placing two past-tense verbs back-to-back. We went over, how, after using a past-tense verb, the next verb would need to be in the form of an infinitive, like so:
"He wished to abolish..."
"He wanted to evade..."
Another mistake she often made was forgetting to insert articles before nouns. At this point, once I start drawing a bracket underneath noun clauses, Koo takes the pen from my hand and corrects the error before I can mention it. We also discussed the difference between happen as a verb and happening as a noun, similar to event.
In a few weeks our roles will reverse! Koo is going to teach me how to speak some basic Korean and make kimchi once school lets out. :)
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