He/She is teaching you practical English by chore tasks.
They are native speakers, you should pay attention to the way they are speaking (pronunciation, tone, simple and effective expression of daily items and activities). You need hell long time to master that, believe me, sounds weird really?
For instance, can you decribe all parts of the binder in a native way? Do you really understand every item on sale in Tim Horton, their tastes, or the price of similar cakes in Starbucks?
Yeah, a lot of Chinese know bunch of scientific terms, but they do not know how to ask for a correct coffee/cake they really need.
Reading newspaper is not kind of kindergarten thing, can your read newspaper without dictionaries? I do not think so. Just read the titles, can you understand them without reading the contents below? It is not an easy job.
