Date/Time: September 19, 2016/8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Panera Bread Co. on Thomasville Rd.
Topic/Skill: Text Messages/Sentence Correction
Feedback provided to tutee:
Jimin was great as usual. Just for fun and extra practice, I told her she can finish the worksheet. I also gave her six idioms to figure out for our next meeting.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:
I always start the lesson by letting her ask me questions on anything that she is having trouble with. She did not have any questions this time so we moved on to the activity. Since most students have smartphones, most of them need to be able to read and write text messages. As someone who is learning English may not understand the English text message (language), I thought this would be a fun activity for Jimin. First we matched the correct words to the shorthand texts (i.e. c u l8r - see you later). Then we corrected text messages to the correct sentences and matched what type of person said which text message (we didn't finish all of them). Because someone from the U.K. came up with this lesson, I had to translate some British terms to American meaning. This was good practice for sentence correction, and it related to something that everyone does on a daily basis (Link to activity: http://www.onestopenglish.com/esol/esol-lesson-plans/pdf-content/cambridge-esol-skills-for-life-text-messages-lesson-plan/146935.article). I think she enjoyed the activity. It seems that Jimin is interested in vocabulary (mostly phrasal vocabulary). She enjoys learning the meaning of a phrase. Because of this, I found a list of idioms (eleven pages worth) and discussed some of them with her. I also gave her six idioms to think about/figure out for the next time we meet.
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