During my first meeting with Caroly, I learned that she is from Puerto Rico. She has lived in the U.S. for five years. She has two sons who she speaks with in both English and Spanish. She struggles with properly expressing herself in English and wants to work on her writing skills. We worked a bit on independent clauses and dependent clauses, as that was something that she was struggling with. I explained what they were and came up with example sentences. I then had her come up some sentences as well and checked to see if they were correct. For the next session, I think that we will go over adverbs and adverbs of frequency, as she expressed confusion over them. I told her that if there are specific things that she wants go over, she can message me about them before our sessions. Then I can prepare activities beforehand that will hopefully help to explain the topic easily. I think that would be a good way to structure the sessions, as it can be sometimes difficult to come up with activities and accurate yet comprehensible definitions of the terms off the top of my head.
I'm using the same method as you for preparation of each session. I have the tutee send me questions before the session, defiantly helps with my preparation in recalling/or finding explicit grammar rules.
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