My latest session went very well, though Serap forgot part of her homework! We chatted for a bit about how her week went. She shared that she had bought a cute pink bra. We had a nice laugh over the words for various underwear.
We stuck with our session division of first part language structure and second part application or practice.
Our structure focused on revisiting last week's homework for constructing past and present tense. I created a worksheet for us to complete together for one last review before moving on to another part of speech.
We also covered question words. I have noticed that I will ask a question and she will have the face of someone who understood as if I were making a statement, not that I was waiting for an answer.
Throughout the session, Serap, ever eager, would push me along faster when she felt like she had got it and wanted to move on. She does this thing with her pen that fascinates me. When she is thinking, she holds her pen in her right hand and spins it clock wise and counter clocks wise with a simple flick of her forefinger. When she has what she is trying to comprehend figured out, she flips it into position and writes her answer out.
The practice part of our session was focused on speaking. I had a simple story passage printed out and asked her to read it out loud. Her speed is impressive even if she is not comprehending what she is reading. Her intonation is pretty good as well. She just needs a bit of tightening up here and there.
I ended the session as always, we set our next meeting time and date, then we went over her English experiences from the last week and set and english challenge for the next. Since I want to work a little more on listening, I asked her to watch a movie in English with no subtitles just to see how much she can pick out. She picked UP.
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