Taylor: TP #5

So on Thursday I had my final meeting with Cynthia. To measure how much she has improved over the past few weeks I decided to give her "The three little pigs" to read aloud. Originally I wanted to make it a listening lesson too but having her listen to me read it and then have her summarize the story but, she told me she knew the story in Chinese. Therefore, I just had her read it aloud. Her pronunciation has improved, but like many people who are learning a new language, she was too eager to finish one word before reading the next. After telling her to slow down and really focus on the pronunciation, she almost nailed every would she wasn't familiar with or had previous problems with. After reading the story, we went over some of the vocabulary words that she did not know. For most vocabulary words I asked her what she thought it meant, then gave her the real meaning but, a majority of words that she thought she did not know, she really did! Unfortunately, we ran out of time quickly, I think the story was very long for only an hour of tutoring. I hope I helped her with her English over the past couple of weeks, it really was fun!