TP Session #14
I met up with Val at Starbucks on Sunday. We talked about
the TOEFL practice that we had done the week before, and some of her main
challenges with writing. She had moved to a higher level since the last time we
had worked together. Before she had been in mostly level 1 classes, and been
bored by her work. Now she was in level 3, and thoroughly challenged.
She admitted that she had gotten a little lazy at the end of
the last session, and I introduced her to the word “Senioritis.” This led to a
discussion of prefixes and suffixes, and how diseases usually ended with “itis,”
or “osis.”
We did a bit of speaking practice then, TOEFL interview
style. I would ask her a question, give her 15 seconds to plan her response and
45 seconds to answer. She did pretty well, and I found that I could focus on
her actual language use much better in this way than during a conversation. I
noticed that she had problems with gerunds, and Ls and Rs. I planned some
gerunds use and minimal pairs for next lesson.
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