Damil_TP_#4

Adult TP- 2
1/20/2015 
7pm.
Panera Bread Co.
Topics:
-Speaking vocabulary 
-Article usage.

Today I met up with two of my tutoring students, Mohamed from Saudi Arabia and Saif from the UAE. My fellow classmate Milton Martinez also joined us for the session as and helped me tutor them. Since it was our first tutoring session together, I decided to spend my time with them by getting to know them personally and their English language leaning needs.

From the beginning of the session, both students expressed a desire to be helped with their English speaking fluency, including vocabulary and article usage. For our first exercise, I asked both of them to physically describe Milton and I using short sentences in short sentences using simple present tense. This turned out to be a effective and comical way for them to open up and practice using their English knowledge. For example,the first thing they said was "Milton is an old man" and "Damil has very white skin." While we had a few laughs as they described us, yet we made sure to correct their verb tense usage as needed.

Afterwards, Mohamed mentioned that he had a speaking class test the following day which involved verbally describing objects and people. Milton and Mohamed brainstormed various ways to describe objects and peoples that would likely appear on the test. Meanwhile, since Saif speaking ability was not on the same level as Mohamed, we worked separately for the second half of he tutoring session. Saif and I spoke about mutual interests and his hobbies back home in the UAE. While he spoke, I wrote a list of words and common expressions that he had trouble saying or properly expressing. For example, the word around and round confused him greatly. So I helped him see the difference by using his hobby of BMX bike riding to create example sentences. At the end of our tutoring session, we reviewed the list of words and expressions he had learned that night.

I encouraged my students to bring their classwork to our next session and to keep notes on elements of the English language that I could help them with. Milton and I both agreed that they should enjoy entertainment in English more often like music, movies, and television shows. This would help them be able to see how to express themselves more naturally in English with others. In our next session, I will use a speaking activity that will help them learn more vocabulary and use verb tenses properly.

Damil