Keira TS #7
Date/Time: June 9, 2017 - 6:30pm
Location: Starbucks
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Listening/Note-Taking, Vocabulary
This was another session with Hani. I wanted to go back to our listening and note-taking exercise from some of our previous sessions. Unlike the last time we did this, I had picked a higher level video for him to watch. I picked a news video about the United States leaving the Paris Agreement, since it is a recent issue that is relevant not only to the United States, but to all the other countries involved. I thought the video would work well for this type of exercise due to the slow, deliberate rate of speech used. I identified some words that I believed would most likely be new vocabulary for Hani, so that we could go over them before I showed him the video. However, even after looking at these new vocabulary words (such as "withdraw" and "negotiate"), we realized that there were still more words used in the video with which Hani was unfamiliar. We took some time to discuss several new words, ranging from contest to renegotiate. Hani and I do not normally spend this much time on new vocabulary, but he always wants to learn new words, and ultimately I think it was a very good discussion, especially since many of the words we discussed he can use later in academic writing. We ended our session by talking about a couple of phrases and idioms. Hani had had questions about the phrase "have half to go" because of the confusing nature of the words "have" and "half" used so closely together, and we discussed a couple of new idioms that came up during our discussion. The most prevalent of these was probably "Life's not fair," which came from our discussion of the term "fair" as it was used in the video.
This was another session with Hani. I wanted to go back to our listening and note-taking exercise from some of our previous sessions. Unlike the last time we did this, I had picked a higher level video for him to watch. I picked a news video about the United States leaving the Paris Agreement, since it is a recent issue that is relevant not only to the United States, but to all the other countries involved. I thought the video would work well for this type of exercise due to the slow, deliberate rate of speech used. I identified some words that I believed would most likely be new vocabulary for Hani, so that we could go over them before I showed him the video. However, even after looking at these new vocabulary words (such as "withdraw" and "negotiate"), we realized that there were still more words used in the video with which Hani was unfamiliar. We took some time to discuss several new words, ranging from contest to renegotiate. Hani and I do not normally spend this much time on new vocabulary, but he always wants to learn new words, and ultimately I think it was a very good discussion, especially since many of the words we discussed he can use later in academic writing. We ended our session by talking about a couple of phrases and idioms. Hani had had questions about the phrase "have half to go" because of the confusing nature of the words "have" and "half" used so closely together, and we discussed a couple of new idioms that came up during our discussion. The most prevalent of these was probably "Life's not fair," which came from our discussion of the term "fair" as it was used in the video.
Feedback Provided to Tutee: When it came to the actual note-taking and listening practice, Hani did not have much trouble with the comprehension questions I had prepared for him, except for the places where the new vocabulary caused him difficulties while listening. As usual, I had him watch and listen to it once, discuss it with me, and watch and listen to it again, and his comprehension was higher the second time. He was able to understand the vocabulary in context better once we had discussed it a little and provided more examples. His note-taking itself is still a little slow, so videos with a slow speech rate are still the most appropriate for his level. Overall, however, he has a good idea of what are the most important things to write down while listening, so he is usually well equipped to answer most of my comprehension questions after the video.
Lesson(s) about Tutoring and/or the Tutee You Learned: When I was selecting this video, I knew it would present some new words to Hani, but it had just a few more vocabulary words which he was unfamiliar with than I had expected. I was a little surprised to find that even the word "fair," which I had considered fairly high frequency, needed a brief explanation. However, he understood this word in context very, very quickly. It seems that I am having a little bit of trouble finding videos for this exercise that are right in the range of what would be the most appropriate for his level. However, he was still able to both practice these skills and learn new vocabulary and idioms, so he was satisfied at the end of our session. In the future I want to make even better use of our time, however.
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