Giovanna TS #2

For our June 29 3PM-4PM session, I went over the paragraph Talal wrote in our previous session. I told him I liked his use of organization and transitions and then we revised some of the grammar errors together. Talal expressed in this paragraph that his favorite hobby is cooking so our next activity was a speaking activity where I showed Talal several clips from Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. We discussed the videos and I asked him some questions about the videos and about his likes when it comes to food. We compared and contrasted the food and talked a little bit about the cultural diversity in the U.S. Whenever he made a grammar mistake I tried to correct him. I found that he struggles with making words plural--this is something we will work on in a future session. I also found that he was really interested in the subject matter and so he had a lot to say. I will implement speaking activities like this in the future as well to maintain his interest. This session was helpful for myself in particular because it helped me further gauge Talal's speaking ability and the areas that could use some improvement.