Andrew TS #13

Date/Time: 08/12/21 9:00 PM

Location: Conversation over Line 

Topic/Skill: Writing Practice for TOEIC/ TOEFL

Feedback provided to tutee: Since Tina had expressed a desire to focus on speaking when we were first introduced it was what we had primarily worked on up to this point. However; this week I wanted to try to gauge her other English skills and see where they were at. We started with a type of question that displays a picture and two words. The student is supposed to describe the image in one sentence and use the given words in the sentence. Tina did fairly well with this style of question. Most of her answers were grammatically correct with only minor errors. Although, her answers were all relatively short and not very descriptive. After the photo questions we moved on to the opinion essay. Tina did have more errors in this longer form of writing, but I was happy to see that she was able to self correct many of them as I read through the essay allowed. 

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: In all Tina did very well today. I am happy to see that she is becoming more willing to speak and self correct when she makes mistakes. However; she still has some areas that still need work. In particular, verb form and articles. Starting next week I'm going to start allocating some time just to focus on these. Because while she would mostly like to focus on test prep, her English as a whole would benefit greatly from further practice in these areas.

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