William Gragg, T.S. #1

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June 25th, Tuesday

Online Session with Do Jun #1

Topic/Skill: Understanding and using adverbs, understanding and forming complex sentences through an understanding of independent and dependent clauses. Use of adverbs in complex sentences and identifying independent and dependent clauses in complex sentences. 

Feedback provided to the tutee: I asked the tutee questions to evaluate his understanding of the topics and corrected errors in independent clause identification. 

Lesson(s): The tutee has trouble using complex sentences in everyday, casual speech, which leads to his speaking sounding choppy or unnatural to a native speaker. The tutee has an explicit understanding of complex sentences, how they're formed, and why they're formed; but needs to incorporate them into everyday speech. Similarly, the tutee has an explicit understanding of adverbs and their role in a sentence but doesn't make use of them in everyday speech. The tutee needs to integrate adverbs into their speech to make it sound more dynamic. Additionally, the tutee has trouble with writing and reading about subjects they do not typically encounter in everyday life. I, as a tutor, will provide the tutee with material outside of what they commonly intake through interaction with English to improve their scope of knowledge and comfortability in different subjects as they pertain to English. Lastly, we made a plan to begin watching episodes of a TV series before every session so that we may speak about it during our succeeding sessions. I am hopeful this will improve Do Jun's fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, and subconscious understanding of English. I told him to make note of any vocabulary in the show that he did not know the meaning of and to look up the vocabulary, understand the meaning, and then try to form a sentence with it. 

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