MCKENZIE Ts #8

     Tutoring session #8

    August 28, 2025

     Group 4(advanced)

  5pm-6pm on Facetime

    Today I met with my tutee Mariana over facetime where we did a lesson on red/green flags in relationships. I emailed her a PDF with everything listed out for her. We started with some listed behaviors that could either be red or green flags. These sentences contained some potentially unknown phrases and words like "dealbreaker", "Come off as", and "turn a blind eye to". I had her read aloud every definition and we would stop and discuss the words she did not know.

    Next I asked her which of the traits listed appealed to her in a partner and which ones did not seem like good qualities. I also asked her if there's been a time in her life where someone's actions might've appealed to her or been a dealbreaker for her and we talked about why that may be.

    I then gave her 3 sentence starters and 6 sentence endings. I had her read it all aloud and we discussed the pronunciation, definition, and overall meanings of these sentences. I then had her match each sentence starter to two sentence endings. 

    Each sentence contained a word/phrase in bold that is potentially unknown, as I mentioned previously. I had her read those phrases aloud again and match them with some definitions. We discussed each as we went. 

    Lastly, I gave her some behaviors that could be potentially red or green flags and asked her if they were red or green and which option is redder or greener. 

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