Nikolas TP4/5

On Wednesday, I worked with Ryan and Chris and their group for over 2 hours, because the Taiwanese student did not want to come again. This time, we worked with Habib and Nasser (Habib's friend did not come back). This time, Ryan let them hear a NPR recording about the Golden Gate Bridge on his computer. The vocabulary was hard for them, so we had to stop the video often and explain words and ask questions to be sure, that they understood everything. We let them also read the transcript to the recording. It took a long time to make it through recording. Once again, discussion about unfamiliar words seems to lead off topic into unrelated conversations quite easily. Somehow, we eventually started to discuss food especially date-palms and the many types of pork (they wanted to know them, so they could avoid them). The tutor sitting was interesting because it shows how classroom discussion needs to be controlled, so that it does not come to far off topic. Here that was ok, because it was only tutor sitting, but in class, that could be a problem.