Diania Remy TS#2

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Date/Time: May 22, 2020 5pm-6:10pm

Location: In our Homes

Topic/Skill: Future Tenses

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Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: 

As a start for each of our tutoring sessions, I will ask Rahim to give me a summary of what he learned in class. This is to help me get an idea of where he is in his academic process. He informed me that he had a grammar exam on the part of the present tense and present verbs. He claimed that he did not have much difficulty with the exam. I then had him practice his reading skills by reading academic papers since he wants to be a doctor. He is a little slow when reading, but he has a decent amount of fluency in his reading skills. When he would mispronounce a word, I would not stop him but I will ask him at the end to pronounce the word again.

I decided to talk to him about different types of word phonetics: homophone, homonyms, and homograph. Since Rahim wanted to expand his vocabulary I informed of the site thesaurus, which gives plenty of synonyms for words. After that, I went to the next topic of the past and future tenses. Rahim was able to understand the idea of fairly quickly, so I asked him to give examples of each tense.

If anything I learned from the tutoring session is that Rahim personally is a shy person. It is very difficult to tell if he really understands what I tell or not.