Date/Time: 7/17/17 4:30-5:30
Location: CIES
Lessons taught/learned: Speaking, Writing
I met my CIES tutee Tingwei. Upon meeting Tingwei I was pretty shocked to find out that he came to FSU last February without really knowing any English because when I first met him his English was already very good. He could a conversation with me and understand almost everything I was saying. I asked Tingwei what he wanted to learn and he explained to me that he would like to hold better conversations with people and write better grammar because he told me it takes him sometime to communicate because he has to think about what to say before he talks. So for this session I had him speed write what he saw around the room I was tutoring him in along with coming up with fake conversations that he thought would take place. This helped him better understand how to spark up a conversation. Along with that I used a vocal quiz technique and asked him questions such as how was your day or what are you doing this week. Just so he could practice with having conversations with native speakers in English. He enjoyed this and asked if we could do this for next session. I also had him after the session to do a take home h.w assignment which consists of having conversations with people in English and to write about it for next tutoring session.
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