Jake Kile CP #2

Today I met with Turki at CIES from 3:30-4:45 and we talked a lot mostly about our week since we last met, an exam he took (IELTS), and American news. We started the conversation by talking about what we had been up to and how we were doing, then Turki told me about how the IELTS test he took went and broke down the different parts of it for me to understand. He seemed a little unsatisfied about how he thought he did on the speaking section and told me about difficulties. We talked about learning other languages and how to improve speaking fluency by sharing some of my experiences learning French or a little Arabic. For the rest of our meeting time, Turki talked to me about a presentation he was preparing for tomorrow for his speaking class at CIES. The topic was to find a controversial US news story and Turki picked US-China trade relations and cybersecurity issues and concerns with Chinese company Huawei. He already had a sketch of what he wanted to talk about from a news video, and I helped him form his points so they made sense and developed. Besides helping organize his information, we talked a lot about cybersecurity and national security and how important they are in the modern day. We made plans to meet again sometime soon.