Brianna TS #17

Date/Time: Wednesday July 24th
Location: Bellamy 338 (later, walking to Call Street Garage and a short drive)
Topic/Skill: Speaking (Personal Impact of Pandemic, Travel Ice Breaker, Future Plans)
Feedback provided to the tutee: This was another session with lots of jumps between conversation topics. For the most part, Ana and I covered some new vocabulary, such as pedestrian (when talking about drivers’ behavior in Tallahassee) and height or golden age when describing the period of time when a civilization was most powerful and influential (when discussing our answers to a travel ice breaker question, described below).
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Icebreaker questions can sometimes help you learn a lot about yourself and other people. Usually, I tend to think of them as awkward or difficult to answer in a bad way; for example, I’m really bad at coming up with two truths and a lie. Sometimes, though, they’re difficult in a good way, in the sense that they encourage genuinely deep thought. Ana asked me where I would go if I could travel to the future or the past, and it took me a white to come up with an answer. More importantly, it was enjoyable to think about and I learned more about Ana's interests from her own answer.




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