Kim Clauson_ TP 5

                I was excited and nervous about my second tutoring appointment with Manal on Wednesday, November 14, 2012.  I found it slightly more difficult to find extremely engaging lessons for someone who was at such a beginning level.  We continued to follow the progression of lessons that were in the CIES textbook and I supplemented the material whenever possible.  I came up with extra practice by using the Arabic/English picture dictionary.  The first day that I tutored Manal, we discussed indefinite and definite articles with food.  We continued our food conversations by learning about basic contractions.  We used the contractions to discuss preferences with food.  We found a page about meat and cheese and used that for our practice after we reviewed how to say all the words on the page.  I started by asking, “What is this?”  Manal would respond using our modeled structure, “It’s a chicken.”  Then I would ask, “Do you eat chicken?”  She would respond with, “No, I don’t eat chicken” if she didn't eat the food that we were discussing.   I tried to use the book for examples and to also use the objects that I could see within her house.  I am trying desperately to provide the basic framework for sentence structures and expose her to vocabulary that will be most pertinent to her life.