Inky_TS#9

I found it useful to start their tutoring session with the warm up video, because tutees usually a bit tired after their CIES sessions. This tutee is a nutritionist, so video was related to her field. We started our from watching video about effect of food on our brain health. I wanted to watch just part of it, however student was very interested in the video so I decided to watch all of it. In the video they used slides. Every time they showed one, I stopped the video and asked if she is familiar with all the terms. There were few words that she was not familiar with.  Also in between different section of the video, we discussed how those research findings were relevant to our every day life. After warm up with the video, we continued with TOEFL reading preparation. Student offered if we could read just tips given in the book and concentrate on practical exercises, and she will read rest of the materials at home. I said ok. So, we went over the 2 practical exercises and in both she got her answers right. Now, because she is having hard time speeding up hear reading while she is reading out loud, from next session we decided that she won’t read out loud and instead concentrate on increasing her reading speed and comprehension and not that much on pronunciation. Anyway, she has minor mistakes in her pronunciation, so that won’t be a problem. This was 2 hour long session :) need to ask her to meet more often with shorter time, so I could blog about it as separate TSs :)