Milton_TP_#13

Milton_TP_#13

Student Name: Mutaz Bakri

Date: Friday, February 27-2015

Location: Starbucks across CIES, 6 pm

Skill – Reading and Speaking

Mutaz is very eager to practice speaking. I did a review of the emotions and feelings materials. I made him read out loud from a set of slides and he was very interested in the new words that he was learning. Example: surprised, shocked, worried, scared, bored, confused, sad, tired, relived, cold, hungry, shy, in love, sleepy, frustrated, furious, disgusted, hot, exhausted, etc. While reading I help him correct some pronunciation errors.

We talked about some of the words because Mutaz never used them before, example – frustrated. He confused the word frustrated with mad. I explained that is a level of unhappiness but not at the level of being really mad. Is caused by the inability to change or achieve something. I had on hand pictures and he was able to visualize the word difference that I was talking about. He needs to work hard and expand his vocabulary, especially productive words.

I showed him a picture of a group of happy people and asked him to tell me a reason of why they were happy and he could not develop an idea. I told him of a possible reason or example, asked him again with no results.

Lesson Learned: I encouraged Mutaz to keep learning language and to talk more with people at CIES. He seems to be shy and he is spending to much time speaking on his native language. I keep suggesting the listening and watching TV in order to start developing his top down skills.  Not to let the fast pace talking discourage his desire for learning English.