Kaylee - TS #8

 TS Blogs: #8 

Date/Time: 01.31.2022 at 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: Landis Green

Topic/Skill: The focus skill on this lesson was common idioms in the English language, including when and how to use them in a sentence. 

Feedback provided to tutee: The tutee needed help in translating idioms and understanding when was appropriate to use them in a sentence, as many idioms have a very specific usage. After defining the idioms, the tutee came up with their own examples. In this portion, there was opportunity for a lot of feedback considering we could hone in on precise examples and usage, while encouraging the tutee to place the idioms into his long term memory. 

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Once students reach an advanced level, they face the challenge of how to continue to improve their English. This tutee is very advanced and we have to focus beyond the skills taught to my other tutees, and instead focus more on how to communicate naturally to native speakers. This can be taught through teaching slang words, casual sentence structures, or just genuine conversations. 

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