Craig_TP_#3(S)

After meeting with my tutees twice, I thought I had a pretty good idea of their levels as well as their goals. I paired with harrison again on this session. I chose this tutoring session to introduce some common idioms to my group. I had asked the tutees to write a short writing sample(~5 minutes) so I could see their writing levels. Two of three had something prepared. We had the students read their comps aloud and stopped when there was an error, we gave the other students a chance to correct the error for themselves/the other student.

We then moved into the main section of the lesson: Idioms.

I introduced the term idiom by using "a stitch in time saves nine"

I found that on wikitionary they sometimes have translations in other languages, so I used those.

They understood immediately what the phrase meant thus teaching them an idiom and teaching them what an idiom is.

I chose                        Coin a phrase

                                    Jump the gun

                                    Cost an arm and a leg

                                    A bird in hand, is worth two in the bush

                                    Kill two birds with one stone.

                                    To feel under the weather

                                    Hit the sack/sheets/hay

                                    Whole nine yards

                                    Speak of the devil

                                    Hot Potato

                                    Fair weather/bandwagon

                                    _______________________

                                    To be dead tired

                                    To lay low

After reading each idiom we let the students guess the meaning, I used it in context. Let them guess again and then gave the meaning. After they understood the meaning, I had each of the tutees find a comparable maxim in their native language and translate it back into English. When we did this I thought they were making the most progress. I then had fill in the blank exercises and construction exercises. I thought overall it was a very successful session.