Date/Time: May 7, 2017; 1:00pm
Location: Starbucks on Copeland
Topic/Skill: Family, culture, hobbies, learning English, education
Feedback provided to tutee: Recommended listening to music and reading as well as watching movies with subtitles to improve vocabulary retention
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Grammar specific explanations, we have a lot in common
Salim is great! He's from Dubai in U.A.E. and all of his family is there. He is learning English so that he can communicate with his clients who speak English. His wife and children speak English very well. Salim has passed the TOEFL for writing and understands English well, he just has difficulty accessing his vocabulary to express himself. He spends a lot of time reading to improve s vocabulary. He asked for help mainly in speaking to be more comfortable. We spent time chatting about cultural differences between America and U.A.E. He likes that in America people can do anything and express themselves. Likewise, Americans can dress however they want and go anywhere without a visa or passport in the country. He enjoys traveling and being outside and camping.
While we chatted, I made simple corrections for word choice, preposition use, situational choices. Salim is fairly easy to understand, but on occasion makes choices that might seem grammatically correct, but just don't work. One such instance was timing: when to use since versus how long ago one arrive, e.g. I've been here since January or I have been here for six months. Salim asked for grammatical explanations for the corrections (which I couldn't properly describe) so I just told him which was correct in certain situations. He also had a few issues with plural versus singular usage. I plan to focus more closely on correction while we discuss things next time to be more constructive. I'm going to look up some law vocabulary to help him learn work related words for our next meeting.
While we chatted, I made simple corrections for word choice, preposition use, situational choices. Salim is fairly easy to understand, but on occasion makes choices that might seem grammatically correct, but just don't work. One such instance was timing: when to use since versus how long ago one arrive, e.g. I've been here since January or I have been here for six months. Salim asked for grammatical explanations for the corrections (which I couldn't properly describe) so I just told him which was correct in certain situations. He also had a few issues with plural versus singular usage. I plan to focus more closely on correction while we discuss things next time to be more constructive. I'm going to look up some law vocabulary to help him learn work related words for our next meeting.
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