McKenzie Ts #4

     

Tutoring Session #4

July 22, 2025

12pm-1pm

Advanced student (Group 4)

    We have not met for longer than usual, so to start this session we will be practicing a lot of conversational English. This will get her used to speaking about situations in the past tense in English and lower her affective filter. I asked her lots of questions about how she's been, how classes are, her job, anything I could think of to get her comfortable with me and talking in English.   

    After this I gave her the topic: "Why you should solo travel at least once." her task was to write me three full sentences using reasons based on her own experience. I provided her a few sentence starters to help her out. After she did this we went over each one and corrected her mistakes. 

    Then, I had her do a few online grammar activities where she filled in the blanks using a word bank. The first one she got completely correct, the second one we had to send a little more time on. This one was also harder for me to explain so I need to do some research on it. While she was doing those I wrote a sample paragraph talking about technology. I then asked her to read it and give me a short summary of it in her own words. 

    As she works she asks me for help with words she knows, but can't pronounce, and I use what we learned in class to help her. I have her read her writing aloud and we go through it together. 

    Lastly, I had her do two more online activities, one where she finds what's wrong in the sentence then fixes it. Then the other she reordered the words to make a correct sentence. 

    I learned a lot today about how to teach pronunciation and I also need to work on how to explain the term "which". I did really good at showing her how language is tied to American culture and phrases as well, which made me happy. 

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