Rick Shemanski TP#2

Rick Shemanski TP#2

My second tutoring session was with Ingrid. Ingrid speaks french and is from the Ivory Coast. Ingrid is very new to English and is still some where between level 1 and 2. First, we started out getting to know each other. I asked Ingrid about her experience at FSU, and also what topic she plans on studying once leaving CIES. Ingrid plans on studying Economics, which is also my major. We tried to talk about economics but Ingrid did not have the language skills to effectively communicate. After some further discussion about her past in the Ivory Coast we began to review some of her material from CIES.

Ingrid was struggling with one of her homework assignments, where she was supposed to write a brief paragraph describing her likes and dislikes. Ingrid an I reviewed her paragraph, and added a few sentences that completed the paragraph. Next, Ingrid showed me a list of vocab words in one of her textbooks. We practice pronunciation of the words. Ingrid seemed to struggle with the pronunciation of -th, and -er sounds. Wrapping up our lesson, Ingrid told me what she wanted to work on next week and we scheduled an appointment to meet again.