Date/Time: October 18 2018, 12pm
Location: CIES Lounge
Topic/Skill: Complex Connectives and Reading Comprehension
This session the tutee had some exercises from her grammar class concerning the use of complex connectives. Specifically the words otherwise, so, therefore, and even though. She had some trouble with using these words in the correct context. We started going over several example sentences so she could get an idea of the different contexts. I then asked her to create her own sentences. She got a lot of them right and the few she did not quite get right, we went over even more example sentences and in the second try she seemed to have grasped the meaning.
Afterwards she told me that she really wanted to practice some reading comprehension (TOEFL / IELTS) because she needs to take a language test in the near future. We went over a sample test from the IELTS and went through the texts and questions together. The text was definitely not level-appropriate but she still needs to familiarize herself with these academic texts. For our next tutoring session I will bring more level-appropriate reading material but still challenging (intensive reading)
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