On March 5th I met with Ngoc Han and we primarily worked on listening skills, because that is the area she said she struggles with the most. We practiced how to hear the distinction between words and the correct pronunciation of a few words she had trouble with, such as restaurant, private, etc. I then told her about my weekend and had her write down what she heard me say. After I said all the things I did this past weekend, we went over what she wrote down together. I had her read it back to me and then ask her what she thought was wrong and had her try and correct it first. If she got stuck on any one part I would help her correct it and explain to her why it was that way. We had troubles with helping words, plural, past tense, gerunds, and some longer vocabulary words.
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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