Catalina - CP #7

I met with Ania for the first time this Monday. She is absolutely obsessed with the IB-TOEFL exam. It’s a shame, because I think it’s taking her away from actually enjoying learning a different language and discovering all the new ways to communicate she can encounter. We met at CIES but went down to Circle K for a soda. She immediately drew out some texts that she wanted me to check out about writings for the TOEFL exam, trying to move the conversation meeting towards a tutoring. I didn’t really go over them extensively, but tried to give her an outline of what the contents of her texts should be. She just uses the expressions and structures she’s been studying about for the TOEFL but doesn’t really pay attention to what she’s supposed to be answering and what she has to talk about! I don’t know if I helped, but we spoke a little bit more about how nervous she was about the exam and decided to meet the following day to do some more speaking. I promised to take a list of possible themes so she could try to do some speaking about them, more or less in a TOEFL way.