McKenzie TS 19/20

 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 with verb tenses where she was given sentences with a drop down option of some verbs in different tenses. She did really good on this activity as well. Finally we did a short writing activity where I showed her a 10 minute educational YouTube video and asked her to write me a paragraph on what she learned from it in complete sentences. She did really good on this but we did have to pause the video a few times for me to explain some words and phrases. She did great at spelling and creating complete sentences but needed a little bit of help on grammar. Throughout the whole session I helped her with pronunciation. Overall this session was probably one of my favorite and most memorable ones because it was longer and it was out last time meeting. I learned so much from Mariana and we even became friends! I will definitely be keeping in touch with her. 

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