Someone new joined my group tutoring session. Her name is Arif, and she is from
Bangladesh. She told me that she is the
only Bangladeshi person at CIES and has been in the U.S. for a year and a half. She has two sons, six and twelve years old. I can’t exactly remember their names, but remembered
thinking that they sounded interesting. She
told me that their names mean “Mountain” and “Beautiful” in her language, which
I thought was really cool. Amanda and
Andre came to tutoring as well, but Giulio never showed up. Arif told me that she wants to get better at
grammar and vocabulary. I asked the
group how they normally learn new vocabulary in their classes. They said that in some classes they are given
vocabulary quizzes, and in others they just write down unfamiliar words that
they come across and look them up on their own in their dictionaries.
I gave all of them a list of adjectives and asked them to read through
it and underline all of the words that are unfamiliar to them. After that, I started going through the list
and talking through each word with them.
I pulled up pictures on my computer for visual aid, wrote examples and
synonyms on the board, and asked them to come up with example sentences using
the word. I saw them taking notes every now and then on what we talked about,
which is good. They seemed pretty engaged
and asked questions. I told him that I
would keep their lists so that I can see what all they underlined and make a new
list of the words for them to memorize.
Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly where to start and what to do that
would be the most helpful for them. Any
feedback or suggestions?
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