Chris H. TP3

Due to scheduling difficulties surrounding the end of the semester, I was unable to meet again with Sammi, Abdul, and Alaa again for tutoring. In place of them, I met at the CIES lounge during finals week with several other TEFL-seeking students to provide tutoring. I met Habib and Nasser, both students from the Cote d’Ivoire, and both highly motivated to study areas of their upcoming TOEFL exam. Writing and listening were specific areas that they were interested in working on. Through the computer, we watched a documented segment on Marilyn Monroe’s life, which discussed her rise to fame and the various exploits that she was most famous for, including her song to President Kennedy. Through the video, my tutoring partner and I would pause the feed at various segments, typically after 30 seconds of running time, and ask the students how they comprehended the video’s content. Moreover, during the length of the biography, we encouraged the students to write down questions of their own, as well as unfamiliar vocabulary that they heard in its content. As tutors, we prepared a few questions and suspected difficult vocabulary and prepared short mini-quizzes at the end of each segment of video time. The procedure was overall a success; we were able to abstract a conversation on pop icons, the origin of meaning of words about starlet and stardom, fanatic, and leisure time. It was an interesting listening exercise, as the subject matter encouraged an intensive role from the students and their focus, although I feel that from the resulting conversations on words, their applications, and meanings, it was informative and a success.