Wanda_TS_#7

Date/Time: Friday, March 14, 2015 / 12:45 pm

Location: CIES classroom

Topic/Skill: Introduction and feedback

            I greeted Abeer last week and after a very short conversation, she asked me if I could be her tutor and I agreed. Today was her first tutoring session. She is an intelligent, friendly and polite 26 year old young lady from Saudi Arabia. Abeer has a master’s degree in pedagogy from her country and has been sponsored by the university where she works at in Saudi Arabia, to learn English and then study for her PhD. I made her questions about herself and her country and she did the same with me. She invited me to go to her country to teach ESL, but I replied that I would have to think about it because women in Saudi Arabia have a way of life very different from what I am accustomed and at my age it would be somewhat difficult to get used to it. Abeer is very eager to learn English; she is in level 2C. I asked her how could I help her and she responded that she needed help with prepositions and speaking. I gave her a reading comprehension and writing worksheet that had a picture, a very short story and a few questions about the story, I ask her to read the story out loud for me. Then, after she wrote the answer to each question, we reviewed and corrected the errors together. This activity helped me see that she needs help with prepositions, articles, vocabulary and speaking. I told her to write for next week, a short story about the picture on the worksheet that I gave her. Abeer is eager to learn English and it’s a wonderful experience to teach her. I will do the best I can to help her.