Raymond Vickers TS Blog #1 and #2

 Date & Time: September 5th, 2025 (Met at 430 pm)

Location: Outside Strozier Library on a bench

Topic/Skill: Introductions and speaking

Today I met with Seunghye for the first time. She told me about who she was, what she was studying, and what she needed help on. I was fascinated by her stories about being a music student and I knew immediately that I could use the topic of music as a starting point to our tutoring session. We met for two hours. She told me how her biggest concern with English was speaking and using more natural phrases. We used phrases from movies we were both familiar with, such as Whiplash, and we shared cultural information about our individual countries - for example I told her about the significance of American football while she relayed different Korean cultural dishes. At the end of the lesson I decided to tell her my day - describing it using natural phrases. This took longer than I expected, because it taught her natural phrases and some words she was unfamiliar with. I think talking routines also made it easier to understand these unknown phrases because she could relate to a similar morning-to-afternoon routine as a student at FSU. We finished the lesson with me recording her taking her turn to describe her day. This was great, and I would use the recording to help her with the next lesson. 

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