Yesterday I met with my tutees (Ben and Xiaoyan) and we discussed a few things. I aimed for this session to be more advanced with the purpose of helping them with their knowledge and use of pragmatics.
We warmed up with a refresher on synonyms and antonyms. One student would say hot and the other student, cold. We then discussed the the antonym of wide(skinny vs. narrow). I printed out a sheet I found from the internet that had about 75-100 high frequency words on it(angry, new, move) and their synonyms. I modeled the activity by reading the synonyms and guessing the high frequency word. I encouraged them to try to break apart the synonyms and draw connections between the synonyms and words that might be associated to it. We discussed extensively the common phrasing of 'crude' paired with 'oil' and some of the pragmatics attached to the word crude.
I think this was a successful activity for 'filling in the cracks' or increasing their depth of knowledge.
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