Tyler-TP8/9

This was my third time meeting with Tugba for tutoring and conversation. Once again I scoured the internet the night before for sites that would help me with tutoring, while making learning interesting at the same time. I found a nice site with short audio segments accompanied by questions. Some of the audio segments were unintentionally funny, and both Tugba and I laughed at a few. The questions that followed the exercises were quite good though, and I found this to be a good prep for Toefl study.

We also did some studying from Tugba's Toefl prep book. We focused on reading comprehension this time, and once again I was surprised at the content in some of the reading exercises within the book. The vocabulary required for some of the reading is quite advanced for non-native speakers, though the words are used in the sentences in a way that the meaning can be construed from them. Tugba had difficulty with some words, and I encouraged her to try and guess the meaning based on the context. She managed to get some, but others I had to define for her, which is fine. Tugba still has her vocabulary list that she started the first lesson, and it is still growing, so I believe that she really wants to learn.