Alyssa B - TS #13 - Dasom

Tutoring Session 13

Date: July 31, 2017
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Area: Starbucks
Tutee: Dasom Kim
Level: 3B

So, today we first worked on some more quoted-to-reported speech. Once again, she did perfectly fine. This one was even more difficult than the others I’ve given her because she had to get them out of a text and not just rewrite them. I had several of these exercises, and while it was more challenging than the others, she had no problems completing them without any mistakes.

              After that, we watched a TED Talks video that she had to answer several summary questions about. Talk about a difficult concept to comprehend. It was about how technology is advancing and how social media is ruining our lives by taking up our time because they’re trying every tactic to outdo each other. Yeah, it was pretty depressing, and I’m not surprised Dasom had a bit of a hard time wrapping her head around some of these statements, because a lot of times they were vague even for me—and I’m all about psychology and English, as well as a little bit of business, which this speech had all of. Talk about a challenge. Of course, I can’t just do it for her, so I mostly had to ask her first what he said pertaining to the question, then ask how she thought contributed to that, how it was related to something else, etc. A lot of times she asked if it was right, but unfortunately I couldn’t simply tell her that! While she wasn’t wrong, there were a few things I would have added or a few opinions I would have backed up differently, but that’s up to her! For the most part, she did extremely well, I think.