Thursday, October 27, 2016

Serena TS#15

Date/Time: October 17, 7:30-8:30am
Location: Skype
Topic/Skill: Culture and current events/Listen & Speaking
Feedback provided to tutee: As a conclusion to our tutoring sessions I reassured Dojun that I noticed great progress in his fluency in speaking and listening abilities. He asked if I would be available if he had any questions in the future regarding English. I told him to feel free to message/e-mail me if he does or let me know if he wants to ever Skype in the future for more English practice.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I told Dojun the story of my weekend at my boyfriend’s ranch in Mexico. I taught him new vocabulary as always like ranch and rattlesnake then transitioned into discussing topics such as white supremacy and xenophobia. Overall I learned that just being relaxed and using natural conversation as a means to teach new words and ideas was simple yet effective. Especially for someone like Dojun who is probably only used to very academic or textbook teaching, it was fun to expose him to natural yet realistic conversations with a native speaker.

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