Manuela TS#20

 Date: June 22

Time: 4:40pm-5:40pm

Location: Bubbly Tea 

For our last session Melody met at a boba shop and finished up with the last part of the IELTS sample speaking test. She had rewritten her answers from last session, and I helped her correct for grammar mistakes as well as offering new vocabulary that was more contextually appropriate. For instance, she used the phrase “go into society” at one point, and I offered “go into the workforce” as a replacement that more accurately related to the question topic, which was the view on higher education in Taiwan. Additionally, at one point she asked me the difference between “except” and “instead” which at first was a bit challenging to explain, so I first gave her some example sentences off the top of my head before thinking of the explicit, conceptual difference myself. I then explained that we normally use except when something is the ONLY thing that is different, whereas instead is usually used when suggesting a replacement for something, and there are usually two subjects being compared. For an example, I used two similar sentences to better illustrate the difference- “Instead of having a dog, I would prefer a cat.” and “Except for dogs, I like all animals. “After a few more practice sentences, she had an improved understanding of the difference and gave me some sentences of her own.

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