This was one of those experiences when you think how to
survive until the end of the session. This tutee is level 1 and he insisted
that we practice listening and speaking. So I thought it will be good to
integrate both in one session. A week before, I found level appropriate
speaking material. The topic that we decided with tutee was situation in
restaurant. The video had subtitles and talked about what is the typical American
restaurant culture and procedure. It also had transcript of the dialogue that I
was planning to use for vocabulary review. So, my plan was to watch 3 minutes
video, then go over the transcript and check if there are unfamiliar words. Then,
discuss with tutee several questions like what is the difference between American
restaurants and restaurants in tutee's home country? is there different tipping
culture? What are some good restaurants in Tallahassee, if any? What kind of
food he likes etc. And all of this didn’t work out, because I thought I bookmarked
that website on my Ipad but apparently I did it on laptop, and when I was
trying to find it through google and I couldn't. So, I had to come up with
emergency plan and instead discussed about culture and family. However, I was disappointed
at the beginning. This was very good lesson for me that 1) double and triple
check that you have everything 2) always have some extra activities in case
something won’t work up as planned. So, now, I decided to create power point
slides with all the links and texts, so I don’t have to rely on google search
or bookmarks.
During the session, we discussed after warm up discussion of
family and future plans, we went over Wikipedia and common terms used to
describe the country such as demographics, population, industry, natural
resources, ethnicity, income distribution, unemployment etc.
Tutee makes mistakes many, so I decided that on his level, he better develops fluency, so i was not not every mistake he did but only those he did repeatedly. For example, after he misused job instead of verb"to work" several times, I corrected him.
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