TS 9/4/20

 Today was my first tutoring session with Hongru. Overall, I feel it went well introducing each other and discussing where he feels his weaknesses are. We read an article together from national geographic about elephants. The exercise went well we researched words he was unfamiliar with and I would have him provide examples of the word so that I made sure he understood what the word meant. He did say he wants to focus on his reading, so I am going to make sure I have creative reading exercises for him to ensure he has fun and leaves confident. Today since we read about elephants, we closed the session watching a video of elephants playing and then discussed the video. I think this first diagnostic session went well overall.

 

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  1. Patrick K M LeeSeptember 12, 2020 at 12:49 PM

    Nice! I have Hongru as a conversation partner and he's very experienced. I also like elephants and I might use your idea and run with it for our conversation. We spent most of our time speaking but I'll adjust to do some reading too. It's not as hard as I thought to establish a repertoire with a student.

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