Rachael TS#2

My second tutoring session on 1/25 went exponentially better than the first one. Now that I have an idea of her level and ability, I came up with a few exercises to challenge her. One area that I noticed she could improve on was her use of descriptive language. I prepared a slideshow with 4 pictures of some very American things. The first was of a Guns N' Roses concert, then one of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of Cam Newton playing football, and finally one of a family praying before Thanksgiving dinner. I asked her to use at least 5 adjectives in full sentences to describe the images before her. She found the activity challenging, but productive! Next I had her listen to the podcast "Real English Conversations: Chick Magnet." Before we began listening to the podcast, (which was about 7 mins long) I let her know what I was looking for. She was encouraged to take notes on the main idea, who, what, where, when, why, and how in order to summarize what was happening in the podcast. That culminated in her summarizing the podcast very well, and learning the cute idiom "chick magnet." She seemed to really enjoy and profit from these exercises, and having it all organized in a powerpoint seemed to help immensely. I will definitely us this method again! Next time, I would like her to use some adverbs describing video clips!