Austin Wisdom TS#16

Monday, Nov 30th, 2015 630pm

Majed:

We continued our work on pronunciation practice, along with speaking and fluency practice. We had a 30 minute conversation then worked on minimal pairs again with the "p" and "b" sound. He has improved his ability to produce and hear the difference between the two sounds. We discussed what we did for Thanksgiving break as well as upcoming travel plans.

Austin Wisdom TS#15

Monday, Nov 30, 2015, 530pm

Vânia

Today we practiced speaking, listening and pronunciation skills. I made a list of complex, academic words (luxurious, leisure, bibliography, precarious, premeditated) for us to practice pronouncing together. Here pronunciation has improved significantly throughout the semester and we spent roughly one hour with conversation practice as well.

Karen Hand TS #14

Karen Hand TS #14 (Adult Tutee)

Date/Time: 11/30/15, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Location: CIES

Topic Discussed: Preparing for Final Exam

Feedback provided to tutee: Today I helped Fadia prepare for her final exams. First we reviewed words with short vowels. She wanted me to give her dictation, so I did. I noticed that she struggles with “p” and b.” Also, she sometimes confuses the different vowel sounds. I had her make lists of words that were similar and put them together in groups (e.g., mop & map, or hen, hem, & him). I told her to practice the groups of words and try to make sure she understands the differences in pronunciation. Then she wanted help with her grammar homework. She had to write 3 sentences (one positive, one negative, and one question) for quite a few different verb tenses. I would point out when I saw her make an error, but would try to guide her towards the correction rather than giving it to her. I also looked up lists of “feeling words” for her to use in the “to be” sentences. Finally, she wanted help with another listening exercise that required us to put a CD into my computer and play a song. We listened to a song about paying bills while she took dictation for some of the words that had been left blank on the lyrics sheet she was given for that exercise. We had a very long session since there was a lot that she wanted to review.  Overall, I thought she did really well!

Nicole Will TS#11

11/28/2015
5:30pm; Skype
Child Tutee

Today, Jun was incredibly tired. The poor thing looked like he could barely keep his eyes open throughout the entire tutoring session so I would not be surprised if he went straight back to bed after chatting with me. In order to hold his interest a bit more, I took him via Skype up into my nephew's tree fort and we chatted there while keeping an eye on the woods for some wildlife to walk by. Unfortunately, all we saw were some squirrels but it was still enough to keep his eyes on the screen and his attention somewhat focused on our session.

I told him about the Thanksgiving gatherings I had with my family and he told me how he used to celebrate Thanksgiving when he lived here in the US. We had to reschedule our usual Saturday morning session because he had a breakfast scheduled with his grandmother so I asked him how it went and he gave it both a thumbs up and thumbs down but did not say much about it. He did become more engaged when I asked him for food recommendations in South Korea and when I asked him to teach me how to count to 10 in Korean. I hope my pronunciation is better when I talk to him next week!

ARZU TS#11

ARZU TS#11

Date/Time: 11/24/2015   6.45-7.45 pm (with Nicole)

Location: GrassLands

Topic/Skill: Speaking /General

We had our session at GrassLands where people meet for Trivia night. I didn’t know how this game is played. Nicole explained me about it which was fun but this was way more difficult for me. I liked the place and we talked about upcoming six day holiday. Nicole also mentioned about her plans to expand her company. She recently had one connection with a company who would like to use her guidance at Ecuador for their holiday organizations. She is very excited about it and I hope the company would decide to go with Nicole.

Feedback provided to tutee: Nicole is very positive and fun person which makes me comfortable during our sessions.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:  I felt that having a new place for a tutoring session can be motivated and interesting.

ARZU TS#10

 ARZU TS#10

Date/Time: 11/17/2015   2.00-3.00 pm (with Nicole)

Location: CIES Lounge

Topic/Skill: Speaking /General

We had our session at CIES Lounge which was cozy and comfortable. We decided to have just conversation for this session. We talked about holiday times especially about Thanksgiving holiday. Nicole’s family will be meeting at her grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving and they already started preparations. She said that it is going to be all about eating and chatting whole day with family members. We also talked about some health issues in my and her family. 

Feedback provided to tutee: During our conversation, I had a chance to ask Nicole’s help for some of the word choice and pronunciation where I was not sure.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I noticed that when it comes to casual talks, I am more comfortable while talking and my language fluency is much better.

ARZU TS#9

ARZU TS#9

Date/Time: 11/16/2015   3.00-4.00 pm (with Alhanouf)

Location: CIES Lounge

Topic/Skill: Speaking  

Since Alhanouf had the speaking mid-term exam, she wanted to go through her answers with me. She was thinking this would be helpful for her final exam. I asked her the exam questions, but she had difficulty to produce correct sentences. I asked her to write down her sentences and we went through the grammar and spelling mistakes on them. Unfortunately, she also had grammar exam and her score could be improved. We decided to review in our next session. 

Feedback provided to tutee: I recommended her to study for the final exams and tried to encourage her to study hard. 

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Thanksgiving break is a good time to catch up with studies for finals.