2/11/2015
Thomasville Rd. Starbucks
Topic/Skill:
-Perfect Present Verb Tense
Today I meet up with Mohamed Binsaif for our tutoring session at a Starbucks on Thomasville road. It had been a couple weeks since I had worked with him, so I was a lil unsure how I could help him in his class progress at CIES. We first sat down and casually discussed how we were doing and what we did in the past weeks. I told him that I was going to Japan to visit a couples weeks after the end of my course at the TEFL program at CIES. I showed him a map of where I was going to Japan and he started to give me some very interesting insights about the design of Japaneses cities.
Mohamed told he worked for the Saudi Arabian Department of Tourism as an architecture. We worked together on his spoken grammar and vocabulary with phrases that he would use in his career. For example, he often used the word "in" when he was saying that he had been somewhere in the past. "I have traveled in t0 Europe before." "I have been to that in store already." I helped understand that in English, when you say that you went "to" someplace, it is understood that you also went inside of it. You cannot use both "to" and "in" at the same time. After sometime, we worked together on his perfect present verb tenses worksheets from class. He had a good understanding of the grammar rules regarding to verb usage, but needed my help to help him understand how they applied in real life situations.
I feel that Mohamed is a very kind and enthusiastic student that is genuinely interested in advancing his studies in English. I see that he needs to continue communicating in both written and spoken English, while receiving good feedback from me and his teachers. He is like me in the sense that both of us are visual and tactile learners, so I know that he will continue to advance by using these methods.
Mohamed told he worked for the Saudi Arabian Department of Tourism as an architecture. We worked together on his spoken grammar and vocabulary with phrases that he would use in his career. For example, he often used the word "in" when he was saying that he had been somewhere in the past. "I have traveled in t0 Europe before." "I have been to that in store already." I helped understand that in English, when you say that you went "to" someplace, it is understood that you also went inside of it. You cannot use both "to" and "in" at the same time. After sometime, we worked together on his perfect present verb tenses worksheets from class. He had a good understanding of the grammar rules regarding to verb usage, but needed my help to help him understand how they applied in real life situations.
I feel that Mohamed is a very kind and enthusiastic student that is genuinely interested in advancing his studies in English. I see that he needs to continue communicating in both written and spoken English, while receiving good feedback from me and his teachers. He is like me in the sense that both of us are visual and tactile learners, so I know that he will continue to advance by using these methods.
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