Last Saturday, I tutored Abeer at the Sstarbucks across from
CIES. It was my first time meeting her, so I wanted to assess her English.
Abeer is a very sweet woman that is interested in Information Technology and
Business. She is from Saudi Arabia and has only been in America for a few
months with her husband. Abeer is between a level 3 and 4, she speaks very well
but still has a pretty limited vocabulary. She came prepared with a lot of
questions about pronouns, past participle, who’s vs. whose, etc. I showed her a
very useful, simple pronoun chart that I had used in my own lesson plans the
week before. It described every type of pronoun and gave examples. As we went
through each pronoun, I would give her an example sentence, and then have her
provide an example sentence afterwards. We did that strategy for most of her
questions involving past participle and who’s vs. whose. As long as she had
examples, she seemed to understand. Abeer brought a homework assignment with
her. It was an interview assignment that her teacher assigned to practice her
listening and speaking skills. The questions were very simple (ex. What do you
do on your free time?) which kept things flowing well, while at the same time
we were getting to know each other better. Abeer said this session really
helped her and that she is very excited to work with me again.
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