FSU TEFL 120 summer2, 2025

 Tutoring sessions 19/20  October 6, 2025 4-6pm on FaceTime  Group 4 (Advanced student)  Today was my last session with Mariana. To start I asked her what her favorite part of tutoring has been and what activities she feels like helped her the most. To warm up we did a matching vocabulary game. I chose some words that could be uncommon and difficult and sent her a word bank. After that I gave her some definitions and had her match the word to the definitions. I had her read each definition fully aloud and explain her decision making process. She did really good on those and did not need much direction. After that we watched a  short chaotic video from a kids movie in English. I asked her to write down at least five things she noticed while watching it in full sentences. After, we discussed her sentences. She did good at this, she got the actions of the characters as a whole right but did mess up a little on the tenses of her verbs. Next we did an online activity...

 Tutoring Session #18 September 30, 2025 4pm-5pm on Facetime   Group 4 (advanced student)       This tutoring session was very online activity based. She has mentioned she struggles with grammar especially the words with slightly different meanings so I thought this could help her. We started with one that had her fill in the blanks and she was given a word bank. She did very good on this. Next we did one that had a drop down menu with a list of words in different tenses for the blank. She had the most trouble with the word 'have'. I did a pretty good job at explaining it giving her example sentences, real life situations, and as much elaboration as she needed. Next we did an activity where I gave her some sentences with subtle grammar mistakes and asked her to fix what's wrong. She did well at this but I found she knew them more by sounding off rather than actual grammar rules. Overall this session was very good and I think I was able to teach her a lot an...