Jennifer_TP4

Yesterday I had my second tutoring session with Yuki. When we met for our first session, he mentioned that he wanted to work in Sports Marketing in the United States, so I geared our entire lesson towards sports using writing and vocabulary. As a warm up, I had him list popular sports in America in English. He enjoyed the exercise and it gave him some practice in spelling and writing. I then had him do a dictation exercise about baseball. He was pretty good at getting the key words and subject of each sentence down, but he still had trouble with articles. I also had him dictate and answer questions, and he did so flawlessly. Plus, I had him read the paragraph I had him dictate to me, and this really helped with his pronunciation. I think I will do that more often. I then gave him a small paragraph that had ten errors such as wrong capitalization, spelling, or punctuation. This was a hard exercise for Yuki, and I meant for it to challenge him. It was good, though, because he was better able to understand punctuation, especially where quotation marks and commas go when you are quoting someone. We then took a short break. After the break, we did speed writing. I asked him to tell me about his favorite sport from Japan, which I knew would be challenging but fun. He enjoyed writing about Karate, the sport he chose, and even explained some of the elements to me quickly after the speed writing was. Since we ran out of time, I told him I would look over and grade his speed writing this week and that would be the first thing to go over at our next session. I then gave him a sports vocabulary sheet and asked him to complete it before our next session. Overall I think this session really helped with his sentence structure and thinking on the spot. I think he was glad he was learning about something he enjoys!