TS # 10

For this tutoring session, I met with Ahmed at Strozier library. We began the session by chit chatting about our weeks, and then Ahmed pulled out his vocabulary journal. Again, Ahmed is very interested and motivated to learn more vocabulary. He seems to have a good grasp on fundamental English grammar and sentence structure, and his pronunciation is not bad at all. Of course, we try to practice all of these while together, but Ahmed seems to feel that I can help him best with explaining new vocabulary words and offering example sentences and contextual uses for them. We always use Google Translate to translate a word in English that he does not know into Arabic. This of course is extremely helpful. At the end of vocabulary sessions with Ahmed, I usually ask him to write down a few new sentences with some of the words we just used. This way, he can attempt to use the new vocabulary words and as well he is forced to construct a grammatically correct sentence. If there is a problem with the grammar or structure, we correct it together.