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[tutoring] holy crap!! someone just signed up for a package of five lessons!!
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/WHEEZING
euryale ☆
u got shit
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the pay is still abysmal and a whole package of lessons is a terrifying prospect
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BUT HOW COOL IS THAT SHIT
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it's five hour-long lessons for... $32.50 sobs
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$6.50 an hour
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HGGGH
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ah, something i forgot to mention before
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consider buying a small whiteboard+markers, or keeping paper to write on at least?
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who's the boss??? you arrrrre
who's the boss??? you arrrrre
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yeah! I have a notebook that I've been writing in, but also using the skype chat function
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good good
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you can play pictionary to introduce and practice vocab on a whiteboard, for example
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ohhhh
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I like that
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all I know about this third student is that they speak mandarin
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I don't even know what gender they are, let alone their english level
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there's no info on their profile at all gdfhk
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not helpful!
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no so much gfdk
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ok so make the first class assessment
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you can do some stuff to kind of gauge where they are and what they can handle
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do you remember the lesson i told you i did in thailand?
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yeah, for my italian guy, I wrote out a list of questions that I wanted to be able to answer about him by the end of the assessment
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learning goals and preferences, weaknesses, etc
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that's a good start! i have something a bit different that is good to assess level imo too
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yeah mine is pretty loose right now gfdjk
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it was kind of tailored for the advanced student
Kari
this only video/webcam? or is there an option to teach without showing my awful face
Kari
cuz i've been eyeing italki myself, but i haven't been able to find an answer to that one way or the other
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ok so
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Kari
i suspect they might place some emphasis on seeing the teacher bc it's much easier to engage seeing another person and also much easier to understand a foreign language when the student can see someone speaking!
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red, here's something of a template for what my lesson 1 was in thailand, with just a blackboard and chalk and my students having paper
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Kari
ah, rats
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you can see there are two columns, but only the answers are presented (and you can have as many as you want, and it's best with varying difficulty)
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now, initially, i wouldn't fill in my personal information
Kari
i don't mind doing face to face stuff but i absolutely can't webcam, it just sets my anxiety through the roof. =/
Kari
best of luck tho, Red!! i hope you rock
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but! see if you can have the student reverse engineer the question, from showing them the answer
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so obviously some of these are very easy softballs
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"What is your name?" "How old are you?"
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So, this is where like a whiteboard would come in handy - you write the questions on as she says them
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correct pronunciation and if she's missing any words
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now, the first 4 are present simple, which is maybe a heavy weight but that's the first tense that's usually taught and hopefully she'll be strong in it.
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in 5 simple past is introduced so your target there is "What DID you do last weekend?"
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6: Where/when WERE you born?
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simple past can be tricky, so she if she struggles, kind of gets it but presents as simple present... etc
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7 is a present perfecct question. "Have you ever visited China?"
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put in any kind of answer you want
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"I can cook very well!"
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(if you lie who gives a fuck at trite things like that tbh_
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so the question of course is "Can you cook?"
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maybe "What can you cook?" if you really want to challenge lol, "I can cook scrambled eggs and soup." whatever
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so first, have her tell you waht the questions are
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and then
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have her guess! about you! in the questions where there are blanks!
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if she can do it and she can guess? yay! you learned something about her english level!
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if student can't, you also learn something about the english level
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and then you just move into asking her the questions, and having her answer in a complete sentence with HER personal info
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and ask you, and tell her your info
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so this can eat up quite a lot of time esp as you throw more challenging question constructions in there
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and it'll give you some idea of how strong she is in english
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tip: if you google "esl" or "efl" along with any grammar term it'll give you some worksheets
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Kari
: you have to have an intro video, so the students can hear you speak and see your face, since they're shopping for tutors out of a huge selection
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IT'S NERVE WRACKING but it gets easier once you start to actually do it. it's one of my biggest anxieties, so I've just been telling myself that it's basically uncomfortable therapy for me ghfdkj
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: I'll be looking over this plurk either on my lunch break or over the weekend! I'm excited to learn
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this website is a great resource
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also this is a great website, it's free to make an account and has many lesson resources
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now I just have to make sure I come back to this plurk