Minseo TP #2

Marie Andrea is from Ivory Coast,Cote d' Ivoire and I was very nervous before I met her. She was in group1 in grammar(that was all I knew about her) and she told me that her grammar was bad and could not speak English, so I was worried about language barrier. Besides, I had not heard of the country the she was from! However, as soon as I met her, my concerns disappeared because she spoke very good English! She turned out to be a student who is in level 4 in grammar.

We talked about "why we needed to study". She told me that she had to study English and to be able to speak English fluently to get a good job in her country. It was not very surprising that she was studying English due to her future career because many people in Korea and people that I have met in the U.S. (mostly Asian people) told me that English skills are VERY important to get a job. We also talked about learning methods since I needed to know, however, she just said that she needed to take TOEFL exam and wanted for me to help her to prepare the exam. To be honest, I am not very sure how will I help her for her exam and I feel very pressured to do it because it is a standardized test which she must take to get into a university. Fortunately, I have materials for TOEFL, so I think I can help her somehow, but I need help as well to help her to be prepared for the exam.

What we are going to do:

1. Vocabulary

We will have voca quiz twice a week.

2. Listening

I am confident of helping her listening skills because for 8 months, I have been practicing TOEFL listening regularly at CIES:) What I am concerning about is how to explain the skills that I know and how to help her to be able to do the integrated task.

3. Writing

4. Speaking

Timed writing and speaking is harder when people actually do it. I will help her to be able to write her ideas and speak her opinions in time.

Even though I cannot speak french, but I don't think that it will be a problem. However, I know that it will be much helpful for me to be able to speak her language to teach her and make better communication with her.