Brianna TS #19

Date/Time: Friday July 26th
Location: Bellamy 338
Topic/Skill: Listening (British Colonies in North America)
Feedback provided to the tutee: Whenever Wei didn’t understand a certain word or phrase, she would pause the video so we could discuss it. For example, we covered new terms like plagued (by), immodest, and precarious. I also gave more in-depth explanations about two idioms used in the video, into thin air and smoking gun. We practiced pronouncing thin and air separately and then together. Before we started watching the video, I briefly went over some important contextual information, mainly that around this time Spain and Britain were enemies, and that this was very early during the colonial period, so all the colonists were British and they had very little power over the Indigenous peoples.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: This was a very impromptu video watching session, as Wei only let me know she would really like to watch some sort of movie/short film/video during our break between sessions. I didn’t want to pick something I myself had not seen before, and most of the content I’m familiar with is not about American culture or history. I think what we ultimately ended up watching was too long and too difficult, and not exactly what Wei had in mind. For our final session next week, I will find a more suitable video and have her watch it in advance, so we can spend the entire hour discussing it.



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