Third Meeting

My third meeting with Josefina was very productive. She had completed her homework and demonstrated a very good grip on past tense. We talked for about ten minutes about her family and things she liked. I noticed she was having trouble connecting sentences with emotion words, so I wrote her a chart that listed the major emotions in speech from hate to love. We drilled sentences about food, saying things like "I like this food and I love this food." By the end of the lesson, she was fluently comparing emotions in a grammatically correct way. We also had a long conversation about foods and discovered we both enjoy cooking. At the end of the lesson, we agreed to keep meeting after the semester is over so that I can help her and her father with English.

Second Meeting

When Josefina and I met for the second time, all of the computers in the library were full, so we decided to work on grammar. After a short conversation where I asked her different questions to see where she was experiencing the most difficulty, we decided to focus the lesson on past tense. We worked on conjugating verbs and pointing out trouble-spots in the English language. Josefina is very good about correcting her mistakes and once I pointed out a spelling or usage error, she did not repeat it for the rest of the lesson. I assigned her some homework at the end of the lesson and we agreed to meet again next week.