Inky_TS#6

Today we started from warm up questions on how was tutee’s past week. Last week, she asked me to help her to prepare for her April TOEFL. Therefore, I started from showing her video tutorial on TOEFL IBT speaking section, question style #1. For the question style #1, student has 15 seconds to prepare and 45 seconds to answer question. During our session, we were able to work on 2 questions. First, students practiced to apply tips explained in tutorial to structure her answer. We timed 15 seconds for that and right after she had 45 seconds for the answer, I audiotaped her answer. We agreed that we will start next session from review beautiful mistakes that I will collect from audiotape. She had few problems with speaking exercise 1) she could not come up with clear supportive example for her answer. 2) timing made her nervous and she was not able to reply in structured manner. 3) we went over time every time she tried. I asked if she wants to continue to work on her speaking or do something else. She said that she would like to practice more with TOEFL. So, I offered that next time we will do something similar to “speed writing” but speed speaking. So, she will overcome her nervousness of making mistakes and develop more naturally flowing speaking.