Jodie - TP Adults # 4

I met with Carlos and Marco for our tutoring session.  Another adult student couldn’t come.  They both want to have extra time to learn more English.  Carlos hopes to study electrical engineering and Marco hopes to study physics in the doctoral program at FSU.  They both have a lot of intrinsic motivation to improve in their abilities and to succeed.

Using worksheets, we worked on using articles “a”, “an”, and “the”, or no article at all.  Carlos and Marco took turns answering the exercises.  They read out loud and filled in the blank.  In this way, they could also practice orally.  They enjoyed the exercises and found them helpful for making them think very quickly.  We worked on words that are easily mixed up, such as compliment, complement, effects, affect, etc.

We worked on the pronunciation of words that begin with a “b”, “p”, “w”, “m”, “th” … because both of them have problems with these words.  We then worked on minimal pairs such as leaf, leave, fan, van, ferry, very, etc.  I suggested to them that they could learn on their own through the websites that I sent them.

Marco and Carlos both expressed that they really enjoyed learning in their tutoring session and appreciated my help.  I pray and wish that these 2 young men will do well and become men who will contribute greatly to their societies.