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Kaylee - TS #20

  TS Blogs: #20 Date/Time: 03.07.2022 at 3:00 p.m. Location:  Zoom Topic/Skill: Listening and speaking comprehension, American culture on college campuses Feedback provided to tutee: In this lesson, the tutee and I worked on speaking and listening skills by discussing the different future options for the tutee. The tutee had many questions on what steps to take after his completion with CIES at the end of this term and I helped with the application process for TCC and FSU. This lesson served as a great wrap up lesson with the tutee and end on a pleasant note.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: This lesson taught me that often CIES students feel very confident in their English within CIES, however when they have to venture out into the English speaking world their confidence fades. ESL students have to quickly adapt to culture, slang, and accents, rather than simply proper English they learn in the classrooms. 
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Jackie TS 20

 For my last session with Muhannad, he asked me about the connecting word “while.” It was something I hadn’t explained to someone else before, so together we looked up a list of all connecting words and found a page from the Perdue Owl that covered all the different types of connecting words and where to use them. Since the website was written for native speakers, this session was a little longer as I taught myself the information and then helped Muhannad break it down and pick out patterns he could use to determine when to use each one. We ended out session with a conversation about our plans after these tutoring sessions, from what the rest of our classes looked like to what we hoped to do after finishing our studies. Throughout all our tutoring session, we always had such interesting conversations about studying and language, among several other things, and I greatly enjoyed working with him. 
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Jackie TS 19

 For my last session with Je-ah, I wanted to make it fun, so I found a few different word games we could play that used familiar vocabulary. The games helped in every session to build her confidence in speaking, and although I overlooked it for our time together, looking back I noticed she gave me more feedback on days where I drew her focus and got her talking with activities like the quizlet matching game. 
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Jackie TS 18

 I showed up at CIES for the tutoring session with Muhannad today and the EFL students and teachers were having a party for the end of the session. We decided to join the party for our session today, as they were playing Taboo, which is a great way to practice speaking, listening, and vocabulary. After the games were finished, I made sure to have a conversation with Muhannad, and I explained the meaning behind the word taboo and why it is used as the name of the game. We chatted more about school and learning a second language, focusing on study strategies and the difference between studying at CIES and my experience learning French for my school’s foreign language requirement. 
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Jackie TS 17

 Continuing from our last session, Je-ah and I talked about foods again. We practiced with the quizlet activities, but focused more on talking, with me asking her questions about her preferences and such throughout our activities. I also focused on her use of the present tense, correcting it where I could, although having our sessions over Zoom sometimes made it difficult to hear and understand each other. 
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Jackie TS 16

 The list of vocabulary that I had used in the previous session with Je-ah had some typos and missing pictures, since it was one made by someone else. After finding those mistakes in the last session and seeing how they impacted the activities, I went through and corrected them for us to practice with this session. The list contains a lot of foods, as well as distinctions between singular and plural, so I covered the basic rules for talking about plural nouns and we had a conversation about our favorite foods. 
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Jackie TS 15

 The focus of this session with Muhannad was the past continuous tense. I went back to my timeline of verb tenses, since he expressed that the visual helped him better understand when to use the different tenses. He already understood how to form the past continuous but was confused about when he should use it. Along with explaining it, I found an online quiz that provided practice choosing between the simple past and the past continuous, and we went over the quiz together. 
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