Dennis_TP#8

For this tutoring session Shuo and I went over idioms. Shuo asked what "Along the lines" meant. I had a hard time explain what "along the lines meant". I told her that it was an idiom, which she understood. I couldn't however successfully explain this to Shuo, it was too dificult for me to explain. I told her to ask one of her teachers because they would be able to explain it better than I would. I gave her some example sentences for "along the lines" but we moved to the next idiom quickly.

In this tutoring session we also went over some superstitions that Americans have. We talked about how walking under a ladder was to be avoided because it was thought to be bad luck. I told her of some examples that I'd seen in cartoons where a character will walk under a ladder and then a piano would fall on their head.  I also gave her the example of a black cat crossing your path was considered bad luck, to avoid it usually people would turn away or walk a different direction to avoid this bad luck.