CIES Tutoring #3
I met with Byron, Isabella, and our new group member Husain
for our third CIES group tutoring session. They had all just finished their
midterms (at least in their grammar sessions) and seemed pretty happy about
them.
I don’t know if it’s right or not, but I seem to always start my tutoring sessions just chatting for about ten minutes. I’d say it definitely lowers the affective filtering goin’ on, but it also feels a bit unlike the high-structured tutoring sessions I might have been expecting myself to give. Oh well.
Tutoring went really well. We worked on a lot of pronunciation things, mostly on past tense verbs. That –ed is pretty tricky, especially on words like switched and pitched. They also pointed out to me that in our pronunciations, the ending consonant is t’d or d’d depending on the vowel of the next word and the syllaballic pronunciation of the verb (picke’(t)up, swatte‘dat, switche’(t)on, heate’dair) so we worked on that. We did this by reading some past-tense poems (I’m so glad I have Byron in my group, I don’t know how, but he’s always got the perfect material for us to practice with in his notebook). We took turns saying each line of the poem (which contained past-tense –ed verbs), listening to me say the words and then repeating. It was genuinely helpful for them to get to practice, so yay.
For the last fifteen minutes, we worked on articles. I think we’ll be working on articles every tutoring session, they’re just so tricky!
I don’t know if it’s right or not, but I seem to always start my tutoring sessions just chatting for about ten minutes. I’d say it definitely lowers the affective filtering goin’ on, but it also feels a bit unlike the high-structured tutoring sessions I might have been expecting myself to give. Oh well.
Tutoring went really well. We worked on a lot of pronunciation things, mostly on past tense verbs. That –ed is pretty tricky, especially on words like switched and pitched. They also pointed out to me that in our pronunciations, the ending consonant is t’d or d’d depending on the vowel of the next word and the syllaballic pronunciation of the verb (picke’(t)up, swatte‘dat, switche’(t)on, heate’dair) so we worked on that. We did this by reading some past-tense poems (I’m so glad I have Byron in my group, I don’t know how, but he’s always got the perfect material for us to practice with in his notebook). We took turns saying each line of the poem (which contained past-tense –ed verbs), listening to me say the words and then repeating. It was genuinely helpful for them to get to practice, so yay.
For the last fifteen minutes, we worked on articles. I think we’ll be working on articles every tutoring session, they’re just so tricky!
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