Conversation
After a quick greeting, use the following questions as a guideline to form an interesting conversation with your tutor. Feel free to diverge from these suggestions if anything interesting comes up.
- If you could travel back in time to meet a famous person from history, what person would you like to meet? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
- Who are some people who interest you?
- What eras of history really intrigue you?
- Why would you want to choose this person to meet?
Vocabulary
Skip this section if you have 15 minute plan. Read the word/expression and definition out loud, and your tutor will go over anything you do not understand. Practice creating a sentence or two to make sure you know how to use the word/expression properly.
Vocabulary/ Expressions
| Expression | Definition |
| celebrity | (n) the state of being famous or celebrated The little girl wanted to meet a celebrity someday to get her autograph. |
| era | (n) a period of time that is associated with a particular quality, event, person, The middle ages were a totally different era than what we live in today. |
| historical | (adj) of or relating to history; arranged in the order that things happened or came to be The historical document had all their names written in it. |
| famous | (adj) known or recognized by very many people: having fame Although her dad wasn’t famous, she would want to meet him from history. |
| time travel | (v) the action of traveling through time into the past of the future If people could time travel, we could meet whoever we wanted. |
| research | (v) to study something carefully, to collect information about or for something She said she wanted to meet the doctors who researched treatments for cancer. |
| meet up | (expression) to come together with someone, either unexpectedly or as planned He wanted to meet up before the meeting. |
| find out | (expression) discover, learn I would want to meet my great grandma to find out how she met her husband. |
| go back | (expression) return to a place She says she wants to go back to when her mother was born. |
| keep in touch | (expression) in or into communication, possessing up-to-date knowledge She wrote letters to her grandma every day to keep in touch. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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