Outdoor classes
Hello everyone, as a tutor I always check my students profile to see what they are interested in, and since recently I have a student who wants to learn Italian because he is absolutely in love with Italian architecture and cuisine. Since I live in Italy, I was thinking to offer him to have one class outside where I could show him some places and food stands while we practice outdoor communication and names of some traditional food, stuff like that, something that would be useful to him once he visits Italy for the first time. Do you think that would be ok? Or is it unacceptable to ask a student such a thing? Let me know if you have some experience on this topic, and your opinion in general. I am afraid that this maybe crosses the student tutor line... What do you think?
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I don't understand. Do you mean, give a lesson using a videocall on your cell phone, while you are walking around outside?
If so, my personal answer is "absolutely--with some reservations." I think one of the major benefits of one-on-one lessons is the ability to tie the material to the student's interests.
The reservations are that this would take some planning, so that you are not wasting really large amounts of time walking around; you might want to experiment first with gadgets to hold your phone steady, so that it is not handheld all the time; you might want to experiment with good headsets to reduce noise; you might want to check in advance to make sure you have good cell signal all the places you are going... and so forth.
But getting out into the real world would introduces dozens of practical reasons for learning various words and phrases and subject areas.
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It's a brilliant idea. I even think online language learning platform like italki should add new kind of course type ( Outside learning or City experience learning). Hope you got success for this teaching experiment and wish you can share your experience back to the community.
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No, I think you are a good teacher. :)
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I always want to ask my teacher to do this, except I think the ambient noise will be too noisy.
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Brilliant idea! I'm not a tutor but when I was having language exchanges my dog barking caused a mess and I thought about going out and have an outdoor session showing around and talking about it but mostly to get away from my dog.
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