Mckenzie TS #1

 

Tutoring Session 1

July 1, 2025

11:50-12:50


Today was my first tutoring session with my tutee Mariana, she is an advanced student. To start the session we introduced ourselves and I started asking her questions relevant for a needs assessment. She is 21 and from Colombia but lived in Australia alone for a year before moving to Tallahassee. Her first language is Spanish and she has been practicing English for one year. She lives with her sister and they have three dogs. She wants to improve her academic English and eventually enroll in FSU to study real estate but also wants to know English for travel purposes as well. She said she needs the most help with grammar and speaking. 

Today we spent time getting to know each other, I asked her tons of questions about her life, places she's been and herself, making sure I corrected her if she made a mistake when speaking. She was eager for corrections and corrected herself a lot. She did extremely well at answering these questions, I minimally had to correct her. The biggest thing she messed up on was past tenses so I will be pulling together some worksheets and/or activities on those for the next time. sentence structure was a bit tricky as well due to the difference between English and Spanish. We plan to meet again this Thursday at noon. We plan to meet for/during lunch Tuesdays and Thursdays as of now because she lives a bit from campus. Overall I really enjoyed getting to know her and am excited to help her grow her English. 

 

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