I had my first tutoring session with Aviv today. Before starting the tutoring, I made sure to introduce myself and I asked him some questions about his life. We found out that we have some similarities because we both speak two languages (Spanish and English for me and Hebrew and English for him.)
Since Aviv has a pretty high level of proficiency already, I asked him after class what he would like to focus on. He told me that he needed to practice grammar because he is not familiar with the terminology. This is something that I also have problems with since I haven't studied grammar in five years or more. To prepare for the session, I found a grammar reference book that we could look at in case he asked me for explanations that I did not know. We essentially went over the list of grammar terms on page 201 of our textbook, and we also discussed what activities we had used in our grammar logs. We specifically covered adverbs, prepositions, determiners, and articles. It was a little bit difficult and awkward as the first session since I only knew he wanted to study grammar and had no specific topics prepared. I had to think on my feet and learn at the same time I tried to teach. This obviously is not the ideal situation, so I made sure to ask him to choose a few topics for me to prepare before our next session. I also asked him to bring in examples of his writing, because he expressed his concern over writing. I am going to send him a copy of the grammar reference book I found because it seems pretty helpful.
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