Raymond Vickers TS Blog #9

  Date & Time: October 8, 2025 (Met at 630-730 pm)

Location: Zoom

Topic/Skill: Speaking and descriptions

For today's lesson, I met with Seunghye over zoom. One thing I got from this lesson (that I found interesting) was that I actually found this practice with Seunghye to be easier to teach over zoom! Which is funny because the listening over zoom had been challenging, but speaking lessons over zoom were easier than in public. This lesson, I created a strict format. 

Go over three pictures

-I transcribe what she says

-She reads to the transcription

-Then we go sentence per sentence going over errors while I provide good alternatives

-Repeat for each picture

This was really good for the picture descriptions, which Seunghye stated was the one thing she wanted to work on to prepare for her exam and to better her English. At this point she moved up to normal difficulty pictures, and I found time to move by very fast during this format. 

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