Meeting Your Tutor
Progress and problems.
- Them
How is the term going for you?
- You
The reading load is very heavy.
- Them
How many hours are you spending?
- You
Around twenty, and I still fall behind.
- Them
Try reading only the conclusions first.
- You
Would that be enough for seminars?
- Them
For most weeks, yes.
- You
I will try that approach next week.
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Words in this dialogue
- termone part of the school year
- goingmoving to another place
- readingto look at words and understand them
- loadan amount of work (reading load); to bring data in
- heavyweighing a lot; slow-moving
- manya large number of
- hourssixty minutes
- spendingto use money or time
- aroundroughly; on all sides
- twentythe number 20
- stillup to now; without bubbles
- fallto drop; to slip behind
- behindat the back of
- onlyno more than
- conclusionswhat you decide at the end
- firstbefore all the others
- enoughas much as is needed
- seminarssmall teaching classes
- mostthe greatest amount
- weeksperiods of seven days
- approacha way of doing something
- nextthe one after this; beside
- weekseven days
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