On march 5th, I met with Bao Han and we also worked on our listening skills and grammar, because those were the two parts of english she struggles with. We first went over the grammar, the difference between a gerund and an infinitive and when to use either one. She showed me a worksheet she filled out in class and I went over it with her and explained to her why the ones she got wrong were wrong. After that explanation, we did a listening exercise and I told her about my day and she wrote down what she heard me say. I then told her to read it back to me and gave her an opportunity to correct herself, when she got stuck I would explain to her why she got it wrong:)
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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