Colin_TP_#9

Last week I met with Hesham because he wanted to work on his reading skills. We started out by reading a short article on the new professional soccer team in Orlando, since Hesham plays soccer. Hesham had almost no trouble reading this article besides a few larger, more difficult words. Other than that, his pronunciation was very good. We worked on sounding out a few words he had not seen before, like “inaugural”. We worked a little more on pronunciation and then summarized the article. Hesham’s accent is not as heavy as a lot of other students in CIES, which makes his pronunciation of words easier to understand. For the remainder of our time we talked about fun things to do in Tallahassee. I told him about some of my favorite bars and places to go. He said he has had no trouble making friends in Tallahassee so far and is enjoying his time here.