Stephanie TS #11

Sunday 6:30-7:30 pm at NXNW office/study room

Today I met up with Abdulhadi, my 1A tutee. Today was by far the easiest session I had with him because I was able to assess his needs from our earlier sessions and plan accordingly. He expressed last session that he wants to learn more grammar, so I found a way to incorporate a lesson about modal verbs while trying to get him to speak more. I began the session with a powerpoint that used photos to depict to him the difference between “can” and “can’t.” I had a photo of a man running and wrote “he can run.” Next to that I had a photo of a man on crutches with a broken leg and wrote “he can’t run.” Abdulhadi really liked these examples, he even went further than just “can” and “can’t” and tried to explain to me why the man with the broken leg couldn’t run. He didn’t have the vocabulary to explain it perfectly, but I gave him some new words to help him to describe the situation. We then moved onto the “advice” section and talked about what you should and shouldn’t do. We talked about if you should smoke, should drink water, and so on. We also talked about people in our lives who give us advice and we made a list together: “doctors, parents, older siblings, teachers etc.” I could tell he was understanding what we were talking about and had him write his own sentences using can, can’t, should, shouldn’t. He is great at writing, but I wanted to engage him more with speaking to help with his fluency, so after we had a lot of practice with saying what we should and shouldn’t do, I asked him to give me advice. I would say “I need to get a good grade on my test, should I cheat?” and I would encourage him to respond with “No, you shouldn’t cheat,” and other applicable answers depending on the situation.