Rebecca_TP#3

Tutoring Session #3 (15.01.23)

14:00-15:00

Since a cooking class started at CIES at the time we had originally scheduled our sessions, Hector and I decided to meet on the weekends instead. We had our session in the College of Music lounge. It was unexpectedly crowded, since it was an audition weekend (I forgot, even after the dozen email reminders advisers send out). 

This week, we worked on using the simple past tense. We started with a short journaling assignment. I explained that the point of the exercise was to write as much as possible within the time limit and ignore any mistakes. I had a picture of a man trying to put out a kitchen fire with a prompt at the top: to write about what had happened to start the fire. I wrote a composition as well. 

At the end of the five minutes, we did error correction. There were some issues with subject verb agreement, and pronunciation of the ending “-ed” of verbs that we worked through. 

We moved on to a reading assignment. I used the composition I wrote during our journaling time as the reading assignment. Again we worked on pronunciation, and I asked Hector various comprehension questions as we went along. He always answered very quickly. 

To end the lesson, I wrote up some pronunciation guidelines to aid with the problems we talked about during the session, and reminded Hector to send me any topic he wants to go over for next time.