Today on February 3, 2018, I finished my second tutoring session with Mohammed. We just met at Black Dog Cafe from 5:10 until 6:40 pm and we went over an article about the popular term FOMO (fear of missing out). The article discussed the repercussions of students waking up in the middle of the night to check on their phones because of this trending phenomenon. I approached this reading session from a top-bottom perspective. First I gave him a worksheet with fill-in-the-blank vocabulary terms that were going to appear on the article as a preparation activity. We spent a longer time on this than what I thought we would, but it was good because I was able to effectively explain why you would use a certain form of a word over another. Then he read the article and answered multiple choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions. I went over each one, giving clear explanations when he got an answer wrong. At the end I introduced him to two other worksheets, one about using context clues to figure out idiom definitions, and another also about using context clues but to figure out vocabulary definitions. He really likes them so we decided that on Sundays he will do the same kind of reading comprehension activity he did today and that on Fridays he will do idiom/figurative language and vocabulary in context worksheets.
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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