Alexa TS #2

Today (5/28/17, 4:00-5:00) I met up with my second adult tutee, Sultan, for the first time. We met up at Starbucks, and the first thing we did was get to know each other and learn more about what he would like to learn from tutoring. What he would like to focus on the most is reading, but he would also like to focus on listening and writing. After that, I was able to answer some questions he had about English. His first question was that he was wondering the difference between you and your. While explaining this, I made sure to give him a lot of written and verbal examples. He also wanted help with how to verbalize that he is going to be doing something in the future. Also, during our tutoring session I said the word "plan," and afterwards he was curious as to what the word meant and how it would be used. There was one thing that he brought up that I didn't really know how to explain. He wanted to know, for example, when saying "Sultan's car" or "The car of Sultan," why he didn't say Sultan's in the second example. This was something that I didn't know to to explain, but I told him that I would be sure to look into it and get back to him with a response. It really is a good reminder of the importance of knowing the rules of English when teaching the language. I plan to work with children, so I don't think I will need to know all these rules. However, it is still a good opportunity to brush up on my own understanding of the English language.