Manuela TS #9

 Today I decided to focus my session with Sangji on reading and writing skills, since we have not touched on those as much. Sangji told me about his weekend in Tampa and we had a conversation where he told me about what he did, where he stayed, what he saw etc. He actively asked me questions about his pronunciation during our conversation which I took time to go over when I noticed he was speaking in the wrong tense, or didn't know a vocabulary word. I could tell he was eager to correct himself after I gave him the feedback. This way we were able to develop some prior knowledge about travel vocabulary before I had him write for our activity. He also showed me pictures from the weekend which I took as another opportunity to learn new vocabulary from what he showed me, such as picnic table, outside area and counter. He learned words like roller coaster, ride, terrace, resting, drink vs drank, and others. I gave him the list of words he had just learned for him to refer to. Then I had him give me a summary of what he did that weekend, but typed up on his laptop. I gave him a few minutes to do this and then we went over his sentences and corrected them, including some issues with past tense. I noticed that he improved a lot with identifying different past tenses in a sentence although he still has trouble using them correctly. I will use future sessions to further differentiate the past tenses and focus on grammar-in-use.

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