Anna TP #16

Anna Prorok

October 21, 2014

Tutoring Session No. 16

Rina's House

This tutoring session with Rina was one of the best that I have had with her so far. We started the session off with her telling me about her week and what she did in class that day. I try to ask her basic questions about her day just to get her mind back to English since I am pretty sure she speaks Korean at home with her family. I had six worksheets to complete this day, but only got through three of them because it took a lot longer than I anticipated. I continued with the theme of Halloween again this week. The first sheet was a reference sheet and had a list of twelve different costumes that people can dress up as (i.e., witch, vampire, mummy, zombie, etc.) along with colored cartoon pictures of someone wearing the costume. The second worksheet coincided with the first one. This worksheet had pictures of each of the costumes on the left hand column and the traceable words for each of the costumes in the other column. Rina matched the picture with the word and then wrote the correct word on the white board. She chose all of the correct answers for this activity which I was impressed by since Halloween is not typically widely celebrated in South Korea. I assume it has been a topic of conversation in her class, though. The next worksheet I thought would be a little more challenging but she did very well. Her mother told me when I first started tutoring Rina that she was having difficulty making sentences. She could make them, they were just very simple (i.e., when asked to use the word fun in a sentence, she wrote, "It is fun."). In this activity she had to look at a picture and then write a sentence about the action that was taking place in the picture. She did a really great job and wrote sentences with subjects and verbs. Her sentence structure was great and I was really surprised at how far she has come! She had a little bit of trouble with plural and singular nouns as well as some subject-verb agreement issues, but most of them she was able to fix herself. Altogether, this was a really great tutoring session and I  made sure to inform her mother about her awesome progress.