I met with Osama again this past Wednesday evening. He brought with him a workbook, in which he was practicing tenses in English. As a warm-up exercise, I had him answer two questions: "What did you do this weekend?" and "What will you do tonight?". The former had to use the simple past tense; the latter, simple future tense. Osama and I worked on his sentence structures, using his writing as a model for grammar correction. For example, when he wrote, "on saturday, I go to the gym," I used the high-voice inflection on "go to the gym," until he caught his own mistake (and so on).
I brought my iPad to the tutoring session to incorporate videos into the lesson. I really wanted to try out one of the lesson plans that I developed from my TEFL homework assignments. It involves showing students a Youtube tutorial on "How to Make Pizza". This is what I did with Osama for the remainder of our hour together. He watched a "How to Make Pizza" video, and later wrote the steps to prepare the pizza in simple past tense. Even though he had to watch it 3 times in a row, he successfully completed the task.
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