Adrian Green - TS#12
Yesterday I had my 12th tutoring session with my tutee. Since we had been doing so many listening exercises I decided to focus a lesson on vocab and speaking. I decided to write my lesson plan about the word uses "to notice" and "tend to".
We started the lesson with a power-point detailing the usages of the two words and examples in different contexts. My tutee was somewhat familiar with "notice" but somewhat less so with the phrase "tend to". In the later parts of the session I had pictures of different scenes from cities, nature, and people going about life. After we viewed each picture I would ask my tutee to describe what he noticed in the picture. My tutee seemed interested but I had a hard time getting him to say much about the pictures, perhaps due to a lack of extensive vocabulary on his part.
Regardless we finished all the pictures and I then went on to say some things I thought the pictures had in common or what the pictures in the presentation "tended to include". I then asked my tutee what he thought they "tended to show" as well as "what he tends to notice" when being shown a picture for the first time.
All in all I thought the lesson was somewhat of a success although not overwhelmingly so. I felt as though the material went much faster than I was expecting it to which lead to the planned 1 hour class being somewhat shorter. I filled the last 15 minutes or so of the time by talking more in English about the pictures and things in them as well as asking my tutee about his life and about things related to said pictures.
We started the lesson with a power-point detailing the usages of the two words and examples in different contexts. My tutee was somewhat familiar with "notice" but somewhat less so with the phrase "tend to". In the later parts of the session I had pictures of different scenes from cities, nature, and people going about life. After we viewed each picture I would ask my tutee to describe what he noticed in the picture. My tutee seemed interested but I had a hard time getting him to say much about the pictures, perhaps due to a lack of extensive vocabulary on his part.
Regardless we finished all the pictures and I then went on to say some things I thought the pictures had in common or what the pictures in the presentation "tended to include". I then asked my tutee what he thought they "tended to show" as well as "what he tends to notice" when being shown a picture for the first time.
All in all I thought the lesson was somewhat of a success although not overwhelmingly so. I felt as though the material went much faster than I was expecting it to which lead to the planned 1 hour class being somewhat shorter. I filled the last 15 minutes or so of the time by talking more in English about the pictures and things in them as well as asking my tutee about his life and about things related to said pictures.
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