Bianca TP # 10- CIES

 I met with Ahmed at Starbucks. He was a little late to the session and apologized repeatedly and offered to buy me a coffee. I politely refused and asked him to sit down so we could get started right away. Ahmed’s concern for todays lesson was his grammar test the next day about present perfect tense and how to use them in conversation. Most of his confusion stemmed from his ability to say words ending in –ing and –ed and how to use them. I tried using minimal pairs during this lesson with examples, such as, walking and walked and fished and fishing, etc. after about 20 min of having him think of words that correlate to each other in that fashion he had a better understanding of the present perfect tense.

Because he was late I decided to make a quiz for him to complete. His task was to read a small excerpt from the days newspaper and tell me about it. I asked him to read it out loud so that he could practice speaking and also so that I could measure his fluency. I only had to correct his mistakes a couple of times most frequently with words that had P and B sounds. I do not hold this against his fluency or comprehension skill. After reading the excerpt, he was able to tell me about what he read. I did notice that he tried to use the same words that were in the article to build on his own vocabulary so I gave him credit for that and also his ability to tell me the main idea as he was not able to do this just weeks before.

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