"Geez, what's with that awkward pause? I thought I did something wrong in the solution over there for a moment..."

"Hahaha, I'm just messing with you a bit. In that note, you did well, I'm sure you will pass the upcoming exams."

"You really are a great teacher. When my teacher in school taught that us for the first time, I really couldn't follow but thanks to you I really started to get the hang of it."

"Thank you! Now then, shall we proceed to the next lesson?"

"What's the next lesson, teach?"
"I noticed that sometimes you are having a hard time reading longer texts and so I want to help you fix that problem."

"Okay, what should I do?"

"First I want you to read these."

I handed him a piece of paper with words written on it, gradually becoming longer and longer and I want to see how well he could read it.

"Tasum..ka."

(How... are you)

"Okay good, next one."

"Am ta...kina na bolo sa na...ad."

(I saw... a balloon... on the way)

"You are doing well, now then how about the next one?"

"Am nga... si baa...ta? Nga ta...ta...nu...mup sa pla...pla...plasa ra...p nga...nga? ta...ta...ki...ka...ma si...si......."

(There's a... kid? who... went to the Pla..pla...plaza to...pl...play? Whe...when he sa..sa...sa......)

"..."

"..."

"...A-Are you okay?"

"I... uh, yeah, I'm fine. I'm just having a hard time reading the rest."

"I'll cover these other sentences with my hands. Please read the one that I didn't covered."

"Am nga...si baata ng..nga tanumu...pa sa plasa."

(There's a...kid who w-went to the Plaza.)

"Okay now this one."

"Rap nga... na taki...ka...ma si ng de...tinro ng bo...lo."

(To play wh-when he sa...saw a bal...loon ven...dor.)

"Notice the difference? From what I observed, the more texts there are in the paragraph, the more you become overwhelmed but when I covered the other part of the paragraph, you managed to read it better. I'll help you to become less overwhelmed in reading, are you fine with that?"

"Yes, of course!"

"Okay, what we need to is first split the sentences from the paragraph and once you become better, you will read all of them in one go. I'm sure you can do it, you are a very fast learner."

"Okay, I'll do it"