Keira TS #13
Date/Time: July 2, 2017 - 3:05pm
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Review, Giving Directions
In today's session, Casias and I once again took the first part of our meeting to review the things we had gone over in previous sessions, such as the grammar used in "reporter speech." Once we had done some reviewing, he wanted to ask about how to give directions. He told me that, back home, he is often approached by visitors to Kuwait who ask him for directions in English, and he has never been able to provide them with answers. We treated this as a way to practice giving directions as well as go over some prepositions which I have noticed before tend to give him trouble.
Feedback Provided to Tutee: Casias' initial directions needed more fine-tuning than big changes, but I did teach him the word "intersection," which I am sure he will find useful in the future. He also still has a tendency to leave out articles, which I pointed out. For example, he initially wanted to say "take first left" or "take right" instead of "take the first left" or "take a right," though I pointed out that he could use "turn left/right" without needing an article because of the different way the words are used (the verb "take" with the nouns "left" and right" as opposed to the verb "turn" with the adverbs "left" and "right") in these two versions.
Lesson(s) about Tutoring and/or the Tutee You Learned: Today was a good example of a real-world application for some of the things we talk about in these sessions. The exercise of giving directions in a grammatically correct way involved using a number of grammar rules that we have looked at before, but gave it a context that increased the intrinsic motivation behind learning them. Casias wanted to be good at giving directions in English so he can help people find where they are going and use correct grammar when he does.
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Review, Giving Directions
Feedback Provided to Tutee: Casias' initial directions needed more fine-tuning than big changes, but I did teach him the word "intersection," which I am sure he will find useful in the future. He also still has a tendency to leave out articles, which I pointed out. For example, he initially wanted to say "take first left" or "take right" instead of "take the first left" or "take a right," though I pointed out that he could use "turn left/right" without needing an article because of the different way the words are used (the verb "take" with the nouns "left" and right" as opposed to the verb "turn" with the adverbs "left" and "right") in these two versions.
Lesson(s) about Tutoring and/or the Tutee You Learned: Today was a good example of a real-world application for some of the things we talk about in these sessions. The exercise of giving directions in a grammatically correct way involved using a number of grammar rules that we have looked at before, but gave it a context that increased the intrinsic motivation behind learning them. Casias wanted to be good at giving directions in English so he can help people find where they are going and use correct grammar when he does.
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