O'Neill TS # 6

Tonight I just finished tutoring Hamoud. I prepared our lesson today by focusing on his reading. Since he is taking his IETLS exam this weekend, I took our reading from practice tests online. Before working on the reading, I introduced him to Kyle who was sitting in today for the session. We talked for a little bit at first before entering our lesson. I started out the lesson by introducing him to a list of Greek roots and suffixes and Latin prefixes. The list had some low frequency words as examples, so I explained to him its importance through an online video on the many language influences English has. From there, we went over the words in the list. Kyle and I made sure to answer any inquiries he might have. After that, we went over the reading. I had him reading to himself at first, and later on he started reading aloud to which I could correct him for any errors. We underlined any words he did not understand and made sure he would leave knowing the meanings. Once we were done with the reading, he answered the corresponding question. I was impressed by his quick answer to the question, he didn't even have to return to the reading. If it were me, I know I would have gone back to reread the section in the reading. From there, I asked him how he liked the lesson, he told me he found it really helpful. We agreed on focusing on either writing or reading for our next tutoring session.