Giovanna TS #9

For our 4PM-5PM tutoring session on July 22nd, I decided to do a listening activity using songs. I played three songs: "Feeling Good" by Michael Buble (Nina Simone cover), "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder, and "My Girl" by The Temptations. It was a dictation activity where I gave Talal the lyrics with blanks that he had to fill in after I played each song twice. Talal excelled in this activity and was very proud of himself! He had most of the words down after the first time the song was played, and all of them after the second time. He had minor errors where he spelled things phonetically in a way that was inconsistent with the correct spelling of the word. Otherwise, he did an excellent job. Prior to each song being played, I defined some vocabulary I thought he'd be unfamiliar with. For example, for the song "Superstition," I explained what a superstition was and we discussed some popular American superstitions. The next listening activity we do will be a bit more challenging given Talal's level of comfort with listening; I will probably do a dictation activity using a TV show or movie scene.