Damil_TP_#8

Adult TP- 4
2/4/2015

7PM

Starbucks
N. Blair Stone Rd

Topic/Skill: 
-Articles
-Vocabulary
-Speaking

This evening I met with 2 of my tutee students, Saif and Mutaz, at a Panera Bread Co. location. We begun our lesson by speaking casually about how our week went and about Saif's weekend road trip in his new Ford Mustang. I noticed a distinct difference in their speaking abilities. Saif spoke English fluently enough that I rarely had to guess what he was saying. Mutaz on the other hand, had trouble understanding me and speaking whole sentences. 

Upon realizing the differences in their skill levels, i decided to have a multi level tutoring session with them. I showed them some comical videos on YouTube that I had seen before. The first one was video recording of a Bugatti Veryon driving into the lake. After it finished, I asked each one of them level appropriate questions. For example, I asked Mutaz "What is that? What color is it? (With my finger pointing and referring the car)." When he answered correctly, "car" and "silver", I repeated  a short sample sentence for him to understand its' usage. My example was "The car is silver." Any words that he did not know I would right down on paper to show him how it was spelled and use as much visual illustrations as I could to explain. 

I asked Saif more advanced reading comprehensions like "What happened to the car in the video? Why do you think it happened?" I made sure to emphasize the correct usage of articles in his sentence, especially the word "the." We also reviewed the correct usage of the noun "going." I learned from this session that I need to have more multi level activities prepared if I am going to help more than one student at a time. It is certainly more challenging that helping them one on one. I would also benefit from having a vocabulary list prepared for each video that will show to my students.