Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Claire TS #15



Date/Time: April 19, 12:00-1:00pm
Location: CIES
Topic/Skill: TOEFL Q5 & Q6, word stress in English

I met with Ana for the last time on Wednesday. We did a bunch of practice TOEFL Speaking Questions (5 and 6). I recorded her response each time and we listened to it together and I gave her feedback. Overall, she did a good job, and even when there was something in the audio that she didn’t quite understand, she did a good job speaking about it in a way that didn’t make it obvious to the listener. For some of the questions, we listened to sample responses as well, which she found helpful. I sent her some follow-up resources for more TOEFL Speaking practice and pronunciation practice. I hope all this practice will make her TOEFL test day less nerve-racking and allow her to get the score she needs relatively quickly. At the end of the lesson I gave Ana a handout that I found with explanations about which words are typically stressed in English and a practice game where she had to pick out sentences from a word search and identify the word stress pattern in the sentence. I’m really glad that I got to tutor Ana this session and hope to still meet up with her every now and then as friends!

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