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.
- You have received a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a piece of jewelry you like or tickets to a concert you want to attend. Which would you buy? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
- What would make you want to choose the jewelry?
- What would make you want to choose the tickets to a concert?
- What would your family or friends want you to do?
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 |
| wealth | (n) a large amount of money What would you do with that amount of wealth? |
| budget | (n) an estimate of income He looked at his budget and realized it wouldn’t be possible. |
| affluent | (adj) having a great deal of money Her family was affluent, but she wanted to work for her money. |
| intuitive | (adj) done based on intuition, one’s feeling They had to make an intuitive decision on what to do with all the wealth they came away with. |
| experience | (v) encounter an event She wanted to experience life rather than accumulate things. |
| spend | (v) pay out in buying goods or services She couldn’t decide what to spend her money on. |
| blow off | (expression) ignore He blew her off when they were supposed to go shopping. |
| embark on | (expression) start a project or journey They were ready to embark on a great concert experience. |
| go back on | (expression) break a promise She couldn’t go back on what she told him she would get. |
| have sticky fingers | (expression) be a shoplifter, thief Since he didn’t have much money, he learned to get what he wanted by having sticky fingers. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
― John Ruskin
