I met with Bao Han this Wednesday for tutoring in the CIES study room. She has a grammar test tomorrow so we focused on grammar that she was struggling with. For this exam, she was struggling with identifying gerunds as opposed to verbs ending in -ing, as well as, identifying infinitives. We worked on practice sentences that used the infinitive form of the verbs and asked the students to change it to the gerund form. After explaining it and working with her, she seemed to understand the concept very well. Then, we did a listening, comprehension, and writing exercise, all in one. I told her to write down, the best she could, the paragraph I said aloud to her about my summer. After I finished, I read along with her what she wrote and alluded to her errors and allowed her to try and correct them first, before I told her the answer. This exercise really helped with her listening skills and her writing. She benefited a lot from it and asked to do it again!
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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