On February 20th I saw Ngoc Han after her sister Bao in the CIES study room. Similarly to her sister, we worked on writing skills, except Ngoc wrote about the New Year's celebration in Vietnam and the different customs and traditions they engage in there. I found her main errors were in spelling of certain vocabulary words she used to describe the dish her mom cooks during this time, as well as, transition words, and misspelling of words that sound similar to others, like minimal pairs. We also covered reduced forms, such as gunna, wanna, shoulda, etc.
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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