Joelle TS#12

I met with Mohammad today and had a two-hour long session with him. In this blog post, I will talk about the first hour and the second hour in the next blog post. For the first hour, I went over sentence completion and multiple choice questions based on a passage about foods and how there are foods that are chemically grown. The questions would ask to distinguish each word and to choose the word that didn't belong in the sentence and that was different from every other word. The questions were somewhat tricky, but Mohammad only got two out of the 20 something questions wrong. I then had him go over each word he didn't understand, and had him ask me questions on the context of the passage. For sentence completion, this task was a little harder. I would cover up words in the sentence and had him tell me what word he thought fit in the sentence. This exercise seemed to help him a lot as it caused him to think deeply and extract information he had learned before in class. After the sentence completion questions, I had Mohammad summarize the information we just covered in his own words, and had a discussion about agriculture in America and agriculture in Kuwait. I had him reread the passage aloud, and corrected his pronunciation during the reading.