McKenzie TS 17: My Phuong and Ana Paula

April 8th, 2025 

In today's listening class, I worked with my tutees on understanding an episode of Chefs Table. We watched an episode together as a class, and I watched with my tutees and explained any unknown vocabulary or difficult-to-understand sentence structures and concepts to them. 

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