Stephanie TS # 10

Wednesday 3:30-4:30 at CIES

Today I met up with Rayan again for tutoring. I had prepared a Valentine's Day reading passage for him to teach him about this upcoming American holiday and work on his reading comprehension skills. I first showed him a video on YouTube of creative Valentine’s Day card making and gift making to give him a sense of what the holiday looks like. The passage talked about how Valentine's Day is for love and appreciation, but it’s also an extremely commercial holiday. I like how it took this approach because it lead to great conversation about all the things we’re expected to buy like expensive dinners, flowers, etc. We then did a listening activity about April Fools day with funny examples of Burger King creating a “left handed” burger and BBC TV saying at a certain time if you jump you’ll experience zero gravity because of planet alignment. It was a practical joke, so we discussed words like practical joke, hoax, etc. He then told me he was working on noun and adjective clauses, so we analyzed sentences together to detect these clauses. While analyzing, we stopped for vocabulary clarification, I had him write the new words down, and at the end created a fill in the blank worksheet for him to plug in the new words like "rejection," "proposal," and "occupied." After he did this, we talked about different ways to use these new words and different situations you could use them in, giving him many examples and correcting his use in sentence.