Tyler-TP6/7

Today was my second tutoring session with Tugba. I spent some time the night before researching Toefl testing sites, and found quite a few good sites to draw from. Tugba has trouble with reading comprehension so I found sites that focused on that. Some had articles, and to break it up I found a few with audio.

I brought my computer to help with tutoring, and it helped immensely. Tugba brought her Toefl study book and we used that as well. We did several reading activities, some from the internet and some from her book. I was surprised to find that some of the questions and reading for the Toefl are quite difficult, and Tugba did have trouble on a few of them. I told her that there are many American english speakers who would have trouble as well. The Toefl certainly has some advanced material. Overall Tugba did quite well, and we kept a vocabulary list of words that she did not know. Luckily my vocabulary is decent and I was able to explain most of these with ease. Tugba also told me to correct her when she made a mistake. Thats something I have to work on, because I have had many friends that weren't native english speakers, and as long as i could understand what they meant to say, I never corrected them for fear of being rude.