Celina_TP #11

    For my eleventh tutoring session I met as a group with two CIES students, Aziz and Saleh. To prepare for the session I compiled a list of grammar topics that I knew they had been discussing in their classes and came up with some activities to do to help practice some. I created a flash card game for adverbs and adjectives, and review game for pronouns and other topics. We met at Starbucks, which might have been a little to loud of a location for a tutoring session. After going over the games and working a little bit with the errors that I heard, I had the two of them show me their homework assignments for the week so that I could look over it and help them out. Saleh needed to read for his reading log so I offered him some articles from online newspapers to read. It was tough finding material in a newspaper that could be level appropriate but I guided him through some of the trickier words and he filled out his log. Aziz needed to create a presentation on explaining his favorite place. He chose to present about a resort in Kuwait that he enjoyed visiting, and together we worked on a PowerPoint presentation for him. I found that it was actually much harder to tutor as a group rather than individually. The students got distracted easily and were more prone to talking in Arabic to each other rather than focusing on homework. I think it would have been easier if we had met in a quieter place and focused on activities as a whole group, rather than me trying to tackle two different need sets.