McKenzie TS #5

     McKenzie Heeter

    Tutoring session #5

    July 24, 2025

    Group 4 (Advanced)

    11:50am-12:50pm


    This is my 5th session with tutee Mariana, we will be working on speaking activities, since that is one of the main topics she mentioned wanting to learn.

    To start we did an activity where I gave her a fun prompt, ex: "Why pineapple belongs on pizza", and she was to give me reasons for that position. We did about 5 different prompts and she gave me multiple reasons for each prompt. As she spoke I corrected her pronunciation and introduced some new vocab and easier way to say things. 

    Next we did an activity on culture, for this I asked her lots of questions, ranging from dating practices, to family traditions. We discussed differences and similarities and I made sure to keep correcting her.

    Then, I pulled up stock photos of different people and had her describe them, I urged her to focus more on how she thinks they feel and their actions rather than appearances. After about 5/6 people we moved on to some grammar activities. 

    To finish the session I had her do a few online grammar activities where she finds she mistake within the sentence, clicks on it, then fixes it. She did two of these and did fairly well. There were a few new words, which were fun to explain and I helped guide her to the correct answer if she got it wrong.

    I learned a lot this session about some unique parts of American language, and about her and her culture. I need to find some better ways to explain my thoughts, but I ended up reaching her regardless. 

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