McKenzie- Tutoring- 9

I met with Ayni to tutor her in speaking at the library. She wanted to spend an hour just practicing speaking for TOEFL. We spent the first half hour doing more casual speaking, and then more formal speaking topics for the second half hour.

For the informal section, I did mock phone conversations with her. I had done this activity with Abby before, and Ayni liked it. She was really good at reacting to the curveballs I sent her (telling her she had the wrong number, etc.) Then we read a Shel Silverstein poem out loud together and talked about it.

For the more formal section, Ayni took out her TOEFL prep book. There were speaking topics such as “What do you want to do as a career?” I read them to her and then timed her with 45 seconds for each response. After she finished each response, I asked her more questions about each subject.