For my first session I met with Father John at his home. We had emailed beforehand and his written English was very good, so when I arrived I was very surprised at the level of his spoken English.
I was so taken aback by this situation that I forgot the activities that I had planned out. We talked slowly and figured out what he wanted to work on and we proceeded to work on his reading for the rest of the lesson.
I was very much thrown off balance because of the dramatic difference between his written and spoken English and I was unprepared for such a communication gap. As a result our first meeting was very basic reading and repeating and making flash cards for vocabulary words and working on pronunciation. We would read and repeat passages until he was comfortable moving on to new material.
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