Brian_TP4

My most recent tutoring session was with Majdi, and we went over a lot of the same stuff as I did with Amr. Majdi's writing skills are much better than his speaking skills, so communication is sometimes difficult. Majdi can also be reluctant to do something that he doesn't want to, which can be a bit challenging. For example, the assignment he asked me to help him with seemed like the same one I had helped another student with earlier in the day. Just to be sure, I asked if I could briefly see Majdi's textbook, a request which he denied. After we finished working on regular and irregular verbs, we moved on to an essay that Majdi had to write about his best friend. I suggested that we brainstorm and come up with an outline together, but Majdi really wanted to see an example of a good essay in English, which he insisted that I write for him. I relented and jotted down a few paragraphs about my brother, trying to illustrate topic sentences and supporting details. To my surprise, when I was finished, Majdi produced an iPhone with his essay already written on it. He asked me to read it over and write down any mistakes that he made, then excused himself for a couple of minutes. As I read it, I realized there were too many errors for me to write down, so when Majdi returned, I asked him to read it to me so we could discuss corrections. After some insistence on my part, he agreed, and we read through his essay. I pointed out where corrections needed to be made, and he seemed to understand, but didn't write very much down. At the end of our session, I was a bit frustrated and unsure of how helpful I had been, but Majdi seemed satisfied with what he accomplished, which I suppose is the point.