For this meeting I met Toshie again. During our last meeting she had told me that she was having a bit of trouble with listening so I researched some listening practices for the TOEFL. Our plan was to meet up in the CIES lounge but as soon as we got there we realized that it was too loud to do our listening exercise. We ended up going to the class I take my TEFL class in. It was pretty quiet for the time being that the listening practice played.
The listening clip was about the electoral college and explained how it works. It was practice designed for the TOEFL and seemed pretty level-appropriate. The clip was about the electoral college and explained how it works. The clip was followed with questions about the lecture. Toshie answered these questions aloud to me rather than writing them down, so it was good speaking practice as well.
Toshie pretty much answered all of the questions right. We spoke about the lecture a little and I tried clarifying a couple points. After answering questions we listened to the lecture again but this time we followed along by reading the script. After every three questions or so Toshie would point out a word or phrase she needed clarification on. In most instances, Toshie understands my explanations almost immediately. Often times the questions she had were about words she was able to understand in reading and writing but was confused by when listening.
After finishing up the listening practice Toshie confessed to me that she had already studied the electoral college so she already had a lot of background knowledge about it. I'm sure that this had helped her answer the questions, but she still listened very attentively.
For the last part of our meeting Toshie brought out some homework that she had questions about. The questions were pretty tricky but after a bit of explanation they seemed clearer.
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