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As it was our first session, we determined the student's needs and wants. I offered a number of free resources, as well as suggested purchasing a specific book to help us work together and for her to work on her own. We worked on verbal communication. She seems to have relatively good grasp of language when spoken to (if slowed down), but she seems nervous and apprehensive when it comes to talking. This will be our main focus in future sessions.

Today we focused on speaking Spanish in the present tense by saying statements and asking and answering questions. We also did some review quizzes online about numbers. The students are busy next week and won't have lessons so I suggested they continue to practice speaking and conjugating by talking to each other in Spanish using the chart and dialog starter we made today and finding new verbs to conjugate and use from their book.

The students learned today how to ask for and tell time in Spanish. I explained the adjective agreement (masculine, feminine, singular, plural). They had the opportunity to practice this subject online. They also watched a short video: "Que hora es?" They will have a quiz next class.

The student and I worked on editing his slides for his Speech presentation, and later practiced it. He also completed his Spanish homework. His listening comprehension has significantly improved, and he was able to understand the majority of the video he had to watch without my help.

The student previously requested to review the content from the beginning. Today we covered the simple present with the verb ser/estar, and regular verbs, alphabet, numbers and adjectives. We will do a review of the rest of the content next week.

We reviewed formal and informal commands and then started the subjunctive. This is a more polite way of asking the student's patients to perform certain movements which are required in neurology. We touched a little on the difference between direct objects, indirect objects, and reflexive pronouns. We will work on that next.