Date/Time: October 10 2018, 6pm
Location: At the tutee's place
Topic/Skill: Articles
This session the tutee had some exercises from his grammar class concerning the use of articles. I've noticed that in his speech, he tends to neglect the use of articles and that might be because of his native language (Arabic). We went through several sentences where he had to insert either a, an, the, or no article. The difference between a and an was clear to him but he struggled with when to not use any article. In this case, we also talked about countable and uncountable nouns which seemed to help him understand the use of articles.
When we'd gone through the exercise we had a very interested conversation about the relationship between Denmark and Saudi-Arabia. He told me that when he went to school, the teachers told him that they shouldn't buy these Danish products or support anything Danish because a Danish artist had created a very insensitive illustration of the prophet Muhammed. It was really interesting for me to hear what an Arabic person thought of the whole incident because it also caused a very big discussion when it happened in Denmark.
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