On Wednesday (2/15) I had another tutoring session with Da-som. She had some trouble with the preposition,"to." For example, she had gotten a sentence corrected along the lines of "I don't like eat vegetables." I wrote out some example sentences with "to," but I had some difficulty with the explicit knowledge, not knowing exactly why. I also explained that if she had written, "I don't like eating vegetables," that would have also been correct. Despite me not having explicitly explained why she needed "to" in there, she seemed to understand.
We proceeded with the powerpoint after she seemed more confident with the previous subject matter. I had a few fun things planned! I challenged her with a dictocomp exercise, but first, we did some schema building discussion questions. We started with some vocabulary, such as blind date, and "on someone else (as in someone else is paying)," and then I asked questions like "What would you do if you were on a blind date and someone arrived who you already knew?" I instructed her to take notes on important keywords, in the order that she heard them, of a clip from "The One with the Candy Hearts."After the first viewing, I checked to make sure that she understood what was happening. I tried to slow it down, but youtube will only slow it to half speed, whereas .75 would be a more appropriate speed. She seemed to get the gist, and then we watched it 4 more times so she could fill in the gaps. I should have instructed her to take note of which characters were saying what, but she was able to come up with a relatively complete dialogue. She said it was challenging, but she ultimately was proud of what she had accomplished.
I had a translation activity for her, time didn't allow for it. I wanted to give her a more fun activity, so I gave her my Kiss From A Rose song worksheet, where I printed the lyrics with a few errors hidden inside. She was able to find about 75% of the errors! I really challenged her that session, but she did a fabulous job and I am so proud of the progress she is making.
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