I met Metab and Adel at Starbucks on July 20th for tutoring. Today we worked on listening skills to help him get more out of his class time at CIES. Since he cannot understand everything the teachers says, even at the elementary level, I wanted to give him a strategy to keep up in class. I explained to him that I would say a few sentences, using some vocabulary he did not understand, and he had to write down the words he didn't know, so that he could ask me after I finished speaking. I made up a few stories and tried this several times with him, explaining the words in English and through pictures. At the end of each story, I had him summarize the story in Arabic to Adel. For the purposes of this lesson, it meant more to me that we worked on his receptive rather than productive skills, and struggling to explain the stories in English might have distracted from my trying to ensure that he at least understands what the teacher is saying in class.
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