After we ate lunch, Yasin was ready to sit down and continue on with our tutoring sessions, which surprised me a bit. I told him to write a descriptive paragraph of the meal we just ate, hoping that some articles and subject/verb agreement examples would come up. Sure enough, there were a few included in his writing and most of them were correctly written.
We read an article on NPR about the conflict between Turkey and Israel from over the summer. There was a recorded transcript that he could listen to as he read along. Also, he already knew all about the issue, so it was just a matter of him trying to find the meanings of the unknown words from context. We worked through it, looking for context clues, and if he really couldn't find the meanings, I would give him clues or the definitions.
After we did this, Yasin went into talking about the conflict and, inevitably, into a lecture on Turkish history and policies. I had heard all of this from him many times before, but at least it was good speaking practice for him.
Now that crunch time is over, Yasin is happy to call it quits. However, I am going to try to do sessions like this when I can get him to agree to them.
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