I met with Isabella at Atomic Coffee on Tennessee street. Isabella is my age, from a Brazilian city near Sao Paulo. She, like Koo, brought in a transcript for a speech she'd be giving in class that week. We worked through the questions on her speech rubric, and then went into what she'd written.
We had a good discussion of her ideas about Brazilian politicians and the ways in which they fail their constituency. Isabella had some gutsy prose in her speech. She called out the politicians on their corruption and disproportionately high salaries, labeling them as "stupid investments" because they "work without passion."
We worked on some basic phrasing skills, different article usages, and how to add descriptive endings to words like Korea, America, or Brazil. We also discussed when you would use "at" or "in" when describing location.
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