Julia TP #2

I have been tutoring Divino for a little more than a year now. I am a volunteer at the Literacy Volunteers of Leon County, located at the public library, where I usually meet with this him once per week. But lately we have had to be a little more flexible. On the one hand, I am pursuing this TEFL certificate on top of my fulltime job. On the other hand he has had a lot more work these past couple of months, so that we have to reschedule on a regular basis and now sometimes spontaneously meet on the weekend if he is in town, and/or just for an hour in the evening during the week, which works very well with him. Divino, who is originally from Brazil, already has a very high level of English. In the broadest sense I help him studying for the GED. He has been a construction worker for several years now. However, his goal is, once he has passed the GED, to study, get a Bachelor’s and a very different kind of job, even if he does not know yet, what it will be or what the future will bring. Divino is interested in everything, that is, I prepare grammar lessons for him, we have lots of conversations, he receives topics from me and writes beautiful essays on a regular basis, and he loves to read. The very first book we read together was “The Catcher in the Rye”. He loved the story (and I did too), and I was amazed, how well he understood. The writing assignments he gets from me don’t have anything to do with the books we are reading (I want him to enjoy reading). I just ask him comprehension questions about the story to see if he understands, what he is reading, and we talk about the book for ten minutes or so, before we move on to something else.  He is currently reading “The Great Gatsby”, and I don’t know if he enjoys it as much as “The Catcher in the Rye”.