Today I woke up at 4:00 AM to have a conversation in Japan with T-san.
We mostly talked about work and our professional goals. T-san wants to take his English to the next level in order to clear TOEIC. I haven't been trained to teach that but it'll be another feather to add to my cap. Our conversation was mostly about working, looking for work, translation between languages, and converting between different currencies. Because his firm does a lot of business, we ended up talking about dollars and slang terms for them.
Though this was a free conversation, I think it's a good idea to maximize my students' exposure to English, so I introduced some expressions (couching it, coin of the realm, having something work in your favor, foot in the door, put it on the map, a bitter pill to swallow, a penny saved is a penny earned and busy as a one-armed paper hanger) as well as vocabulary words (strained, breakneck pace, work at your own pace, eyes glazing over, etc.)
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