My last meeting with Ozan was a few days after he had started a new session at CIES, so he already had a new essay topic for composition class and an outline in progress. He asked me to review it and I told him the 3 supportive points were well chosen and that given what we’ve worked on in his writing, he knew how to get the details and examples strong and fully supportive of his thesis. I asked if he’d learned anything knew or if any topics thus far in the session had given him any problems which prompted him to flip through his grammar pages and ask me to clarify the difference between present simple and present continuous. After a few sample sentences and a practice quiz that has the student select between the two tenses, Ozan said he got it. Tired from a first week of classes, the motivation wasn’t as high as usual with my studious tutee, so I chose to leave him with a few resources to help his study after I leave Tallahassee. Knowing his plans to eventually take the GRE, in addition to the TOEFL, I showed him the Princeton Review site and mentioned their exam workbooks as a good practice. Also, since the TOEFL listening section is generally composed of academic lecture, I showed him academicearth.org and suggested he listen to some interesting lectures to practice that kind of listening, while also feeling like he’s in a real university classroom. I even showed him the MIT computer engineering and various related classes recorded and he was pretty excited about that. Ozan has been such a great tutee to work with. I can’t wait to see where he goes after CIES!
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