Edinson and I met for the fifth time last Wednesday in my apartment. We originally planned on meeting in the hallway next to the BLUU auditorium to go over some of his english study papers, as it is usually empty and quiet. However, we were forced to move to my apartment in the TBPW apartment area because of an event that was taking place.
Upon entering the apartment, I introduced Edinson to my roommates Jake and Robert. I told Edinson that Robert had played violin all through high school and they discussed their respective times playing for a few moments before my third roommate Christian walked in. After more introductions, Edinson pulled out his study material and we got to work.
The material that we worked with was pretty basic. Each question had a sentence with four parts underlined. The student was asked to discover which of the four underlined parts was a grammatical error within the sentence. Edinson worked through the questions with relative ease in the beginning, but the questions got more difficult as the workbook wore on. My roommates and I even found many of the questions difficult, proving that the test truly is a test of english ability that goes beyond the level of simple competency. Edinson laughed when I told him that I might have trouble with the test that he has to take after only a year of speaking english consistently.
I haven't gotten in touch with Edinson since he took the competency test, but hopefully he did well. In my opinion, he's improved each time we've met. He really seemed to understand all of the points that were covered in the workbook, so I think there's a good chance he'll be cleared to enroll in classes next semester.
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