Ashley TS # 3

In-Person Session - CIES Classroom

July 2

3:00-4:00pm

Continuation of Vocabulary (specifically describing body parts) and Review of Conversation Vocab.

When I last met Morel, he said that he wanted to broaden his vocabulary to describe body parts, so that is what we worked on.

I started by showing a photo of the human body and had him identify as many parts as he could in English. This helped me to understand what he already knew vs what he needed to know.

After that I started at the top of the body and taught him descriptive words for the body parts. I would provide him example sentences and have him point to his own body to make the learning interactive. I also had a graphic on my laptop that visually showed where each part was. Then I moved to the middle of the body doing the same thing, before moving to the bottom half. 

After this process I went back to the blank graphic and had him describe as many body parts as possible. 

The last thing we did during our session was practice the exercise from last session which was ordering at a restaurant. 

One thing I learned was that Morel struggles with the variety of words in English that are spelt the same and have different meanings or are spelt differently and sound the same. So, our next session we will be focusing on listening.

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