Celina_TP #15

For this weeks tutoring session I met again with Saleh and Azuz. Our last group tutoring session was a little frustrating for me because I felt like I couldn't help both of them equally without offering more help to one or the other. This time I planned out an activity and specific things to work on instead of just letting them chose what to focus on. To being with, I came up with a productive activity to work on synonyms and antonyms. I gave them both a pile of notecards that had a word on it, simple words like wonderful, amazing, etc.. So they had to face each other and each one would hold up a card and the other would have to give a synonym and antonym for the word. The winner got a box of girl scout cookies, just to make it more motivational for them to actually try. This activity turned out to work really well, I like that they kind of had fun yet still learned valuable skills for speaking and writing. Next, to continue on with the synonym/antonym theme, we went over a short reading that was filled with some new and difficult vocabulary terms. I had them highlight the terms they were least familiar with and then when they finished we went over the words and created synonyms and antonyms for the new vocab words. This is a really helpful tool for usage in reading on exams like the IELTS or TOEFL. If they can figure out a words synonym then it can be simplified and less confusing for them to comprehend the full context in a short amount of allotted time. For the last twenty minutes or so of our session I let them take out whatever homework they had and helped them each go over it and work on any projects they had.