1/19/2015
West Tennessee St. Starbucks Coffee
Topic/Skill:
-Simple past and present tense verbs
-Simple past and present tense verbs
Today I accompanied fellow TEFL program student Milton Martinez in his tutoring session with his tutee Mohammed Alajmi. The weather this morning was very nice, so we sat outside at one of the tables outside of the cafe. I believe this was a good idea because it set a casual and personal mood to our tutoring session. Alajmi was a kind prospective engineering student from Kuwait that expressed his desire to learn to use the simple present and past verb tenses. First, Milton and I guided him thru sentence completion worksheets and other similar grammar exercises he had been given in class. Second, we spoke casually about his homeland and some of his personal interests, As we spoke, we politely corrected his improper use of verb tenses. When needed, we wrote the correct sentence form when it was too difficult for him to understand what we were trying to say.
Milton encouraged Alajmi to practice reading on his own and build upon his reading comprehension skills. Knowing of his future goals of pursuing an engineering degree and the written math problems he would face, guessing the meaning of words thru context is a essential skill that he must start using now. Alajmi's reading skills are good, it is evident thru his positive motivation and the profound interest he showed in everything we had to teach him.
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