Sara Young TS #8


TS #8 Andres #6: 8 July

On Monday, July 8 at 3 PM in the CIES downstairs lounge, I met with Andres and began the tutoring session by doing a short review on all of the vocabulary words learned throughout the past 4 tutoring sessions; the review consisted of creating hypothetical situations, sort of like a role-play, and asking Andres to freely create sentences while using a word bank in front of him of the words discussed, while occasionally asking for definitions. After completing the review, I went on to cover the new vocabulary from the last tutoring session we met that was not covered, similarly to how I’d done it in previous tutoring sessions, finally concluding the long list of vocabulary words from the This American Life podcast assigned nearly 2 weeks prior. Andres was eager to find another podcast from the This American Life radio program, to which I encouraged him to do so while sending me the link so I could look it over and make sure that it’s level-appropriate for him. I am concerned as to how to cover and practice depth of vocabulary in different, more diverse ways rather than just going over a list of random vocabulary words that have been either seen/not seen before from a podcast over and over again, thus I am currently doing research and looking for more activities for future tutoring sessions that will allow me to keep Andres’s attention (although he seems eager about keeping the way we spend our tutoring sessions consistent, as mentioned before).

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