My first activity with Alex was to sit down at the computer and discuss with him each of the key grammatical concepts that he should have been exposed to up to this point in a traditional curriculum leading up to and including the Spanish 3 course.

We started at the very basic and ended with concepts of the Subjunctive and present progressive.

We identified areas in which he was less confident and his strongest areas.

We discussed his personal goals for Spanish acquisition. I informed him of the extra efforts that it would take for him to accomplish his desired goals. I told him strategies that could help him to achieve those goals.

We read from two different Spanish texts of different difficulty levels. We discussed the different conjugations and themes of the texts.

We had an extended conversation that was conducted completely in Spanish. We conversed for 7 minutes.

Afterwords, we dissected the conversation, and discussed ways to improve.

It was a very productive session. Alex is a promising student and I look forward to helping him accomplish his goals this year.