FSU TEFL 120 Summer 2

Date: September 4th Friday Location: College of Medicine Patio Tutee: Wei Topics: Vocab, speaking, error correction Feedback Provided: Today we mainly worked on some phrasal vocab that Wei brought to the lesson. The vocab she had questions about was even difficult for me to explain, so this presented somewhat of a challenge. Lessons learned: Sometimes students will ask you questions that are more complex than just a simple dictionary check and will take some time to really unpack a correct answer for. To that end, there is no shame in looking up definitions or clarifications in appropriate sources, because they can be useful tools for confirming one's explanations to make sure they are correct and not just native speaker intuitions.

 Date August 30th Sunday Location: College of Medicine Patio Tutee: Wei Topics: Vocab, speaking, error correction Feedback Provided: We worked a lot on vocab, focusing mainly on disambiguating words that are similar as well as some colloquial speech.  Lessons learned: New vocab can be both very helpful and challenging to more advanced speakers. Overall, covering new vocab is generally quite helpful, but sometimes antonyms/opposites can be challenging, because they can be false friends and contextually not go together, even if they are technically opposites.