Erfaan Mahmoodi TS #8

For my seventh session with Yan, we broke bread (or rather, noodles with shrimp and vegetables) and got into doing timed speaking lessons. She was able to borrow a cup with slips of premises that we used for our session’s exercises. The structure we had was based off of what Yan was doing in her classes, in preparation for the TOEFL exam: she would have 15 seconds to read a premise, and then 45 seconds to write a response. We were able to have fun with these exercises despite how stressing they were for her. I chose to repeat each premise a second time so that she could write it again with better focus, knowing already the response she would have. What surprised her throughout the session was that all the premises were beyond the level she was used to: Yes-and-No responses, rather than free-form explanations and descriptions lacking a yes-or-no answer. I proposed that we could make the exercises a little longer to give time for her to determine the structure of her response, but she refused as she wanted to push herself. On a pleasant social note, our tutoring session ended with an extended invite from Yan to have dinner with her and her roommates for next Monday.

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