TS 8/31/20

 I met with Saad today for our first tutoring session. He has just finished moving into Tallahassee to start preparing for the semester. He is from Saudi Arabia and has been here in the US since 2019. He hopes to start studying business law at FSU. He has pretty good speaking skills as we were able to hold a good conversation. He admits he is a bad reader, we did a reading exercise where he read a passage I selected. I told him to email me his answers and a short email about his last vacation in Houston so I can assess his writing skills. Overall it was a good first meeting and he seems to be excited about classes and the tutoring.

 

Comments

  1. Patrick K M LeeSeptember 9, 2020 at 8:18 PM

    I wonder if anyone remembers cursive, or script writing, the flowing and connected type of hand-writing no one uses anymore. I then also wonder if this impacts the fact that he can speak better than he reads. Our letters must look harsh, edgy and sharp for someone who comes from an Arabic speaking place, which is a language that looks more like it has to be drawn than written; it's soft and flows and full of rounded shapes and edges. Good idea asking for some writing for evaluation, and asking him to write about a vacation.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TS Halima Alnakhli

Date/Time: Wednesday 10/21 Location: Zoom Topic/Skill: Prepositions and grammar tips Feedback provided to tutee: grammar and writing error correction Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Consciousness is key to impressing native English speakers with writing.
Read more

CP 10/9/20

Today I met with Marcia. She talked about how she is working on her applications for different graduate schools. She talked about how she applied to some schools in South Korea and other schools in Canada. She mentioned how it is exhausting to work on all these applications. I then started discussing with her how I always wanted to have a deep southern accent. She was shocked to hear this since she has always tried to overcome her accent in English. I talked to her about how it makes you sound different and adds diversity. After that, we ended up talking about the TEFL internship program and how she thinks Dr. Rios is a really good teacher. She thinks that his ability to understand where the students are coming from really makes him an effective teacher. 
Read more

TS Renata Moreria

Date/Time: Wednesday 10/21 Location: Zoom Topic/Skill: Speaking fluency and prepositions  Feedback provided to tutee: Proper pronunciation and use of five different prepositions  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Preparation is the key to great lessons
Read more