Report on your tutoring on this thread. Two or three paragraphs.
Carly Green | (63.34.197.3) | Friday, 5 April 2002 4:55:49 PM
Hello everyone, I thought I would give this ago. I went to Beverly Hills on Wednesday and have been doing so for the last three weeks. I have been teaching two Chinese girls Fei & Jessica who have needed help with speaking/conversation type work. I believe they need alot more help though! I asked them to read for me and was surprised to learn they had alot of trouble. I had to show them how to sound out words as they didn't know how to read them and they looked up the words in their computer data dictionary thing that they all carry around with them. When I asked them to write down what they were doing on the weekend, again I was surprised to find their sentence structure was very poor eg. I have breakfast. I finish breakfast.These girls are going into year ten next term. I hope they will be ok. I'm a little worried but I guess they learn quickly. We have done a few listening skills with tapes and they are pretty good at this.
Do any of you feel the same way as I do?? I guess if they weren't going into yr 10 next term it wouldn't concern me as much.
Since I have been teaching the girls they have improved ( the teacher told me this??) but I don't know.
Anyway I hope all your teaching is going well... please respond to me someone!! Thankyou Carly
Hope Kelson | (203.32.82.8) | Wednesday, 10 April 2002 10:13:14 PM
Hi, Carly,
I know what you mean! Some of the students in my class are graduating on Friday and I expected them to have a better grasp of English. It seems there is only a limited amount of time and space for each student. The only thing i have noticed about those kids who are graduating is that they have a degree of confidence that the others in the class lack. I guess that means that they will be capable of joining in and expanding their english themselves. However, the students i see most of are only about 12, 13 or 14 years old, so they are not entering year 10....
i posted up my report on another page... hope some one finds it. there is a note there to say that the beverly hills school counsellor is willing to talk to interested students but would rather see us in groups than seperately, so if you are interested, please respond to me and we can maybe work out a time to see her.
goodluck!