Jacqueline TS #7 adult

4/9 8-9am So-young

This morning was my first real tutoring session on skype with So-young, and it went SO WELL!! I sent her the link to this article last night:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/texas-aandm-speaking-policy-richard-spencer.html

I also sent her a document with vocabulary words and comprehension questions, but told her the first part of our session I would let her read the article, then see how long it took. Within 17 min, she was done with the article and I asked her if it seemed level-appropriate. She thought it was, so we were off to a great start!

Instead of having her define the words I provided, I decided to have her go thru the article again and message me a list of words she did not know.

She sent me this list: Grapple, Security, revisited, Legion, revoked, implication, standoff

We spent the remainder of our hour focusing on these words, defining them in English/Korean, writing the part of speech, and an example sentence. I would first explain the word to her in English to give her some background, then she would send me her definition.

First example:

Grapple – 붙잡고 싸우다, If you grapple with a problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it.

When I had her type out a sentence she said:

I've been grapple with the issue for 10 years.

I explained that in her sentence, grapple should be in the present perfect continuous tense.

(for a refresher: present perfect progressive tense describes an action that began in the past, continues in the present, and may continue into the future. This tense is formed by using has/have been and the present participle of the verb (the verb form ending in -ing)

She then immediately edited her sentence to say:

I've been grappling with the issue for 10 years.

We continued this for the rest of her words, then the hour was finished! We will continue to discuss the article during our next session to extrapolate meaning and to test her comprehension.

Overall, I thought it was very successful, and so did she :]