McKenzie- Tutoring- 1

Today, Friday, September 3, was my first time meeting Abby at the library to tutor her. Her real name is Yoonjung Lee but she goes by Abby in America. Abby is not a student, she is a housewife who came here from Korea with her husband and son while her husband attends FSU for a year. I asked what she wanted out of the tutoring and she said to increase her vocabulary, and to be able to communicate better with her son’s teachers. We are going to meet every Saturday at 10 for one hour. Originally I was supposed to tutor two people, but the second girl did not work out so Karen Gotti is working out another tutoring appointment for me right now.

Abby’s English is somewhere between intermediate and advanced. She understands everything and can read fluently, but makes minor mistakes when she is speaking. Today, I just wanted to see what level she is at so we read a story about jazz music in America. She read it out loud and we stopped after each paragraph to discuss vocabulary or any questions she might have. There were a few words she did not know: mingle, improvise, forerunners, and emerge. I explained them and asked her to try and use them in another example. Afterwards, the article came with an activity. There were sentences about the article with words missing. There was a word bank next to the sentences that she could choose from. The words were unconjugated verbs, so not only did she have to know what word was appropriate for each sentence, she had to conjugate the verb. I asked her to write a paragraph tonight about her experience with music, what type of music she likes, is there any music in her country used for festivals, does she play music, etc. We will review it tomorrow!