Sophie TS #16- Fahad

The final tutoring session! At this point Fahad and I were both pretty busy with the end of the semester, but we did manage to find a time when we weren't cramming to meet one last time. He was a little worried about his reading skills for the end of the semester, so I decided to do another reading activity, but I tried to find a more interesting one than last time. After looking around for something that was both interesting and level appropriate, as well as a good length, I ended up deciding to use the reading lesson plan I came up with for class. However because I created that for a slightly lower level than Fahad's, I gave him the whole article and added several more questions. I think this exercise was more engaging than the other reading exercise we did the session before because it was about something relevant to my life. In addition to that, it was a news article instead of an academic one, so the language was a little more casual and the structure a little more informal. And even if Fahad had never heard of or listened to the Beatles, at least it was interesting because I got to talk to him about their influence in my life. I grew up listening to them, and I named the cat I adopted this summer Ringo, which is something Fahad and I talked about every once in a while.