Kim TS #11

I met with my adult tutee, Modibo, Monday April 10 at 12 pm in the CIES building. Modibo and I caught up about our weekends and he told me he was going to go home to Mali for the summer. He will come back to Tallahassee in the Fall to start school at TCC. He is looking forward to seeing his parents and meeting his nephew for the first time. He told me this has been the longest he's been away from home (four months) and he's excited to go home and visit his family and friends. We started our lesson for the day with a short story by Pat Boyle called Blue Gum Tree. We discussed the subject of the story so I could check his comprehension and we covered a lot of new vocabulary including: hanging around, shrine, holy, tug, towrope, noose, thrill-seekers, shove, constable, on duty, paddock, corpse, elucidate, fumble, giggle, back up (in the context of a police calling for it), emanated, Houdini, lurking, sparse, and screeching. Modibo gave me an example sentence for each word after I helped him with the definitions of the words. While Modibo was reading the story aloud I took notes on all of the words he pronounced incorrectly including: valiance, minor, tug, baton, gravel, and vibrations. We didn't have enough time to go into the vowel rules that Professor Kim just showed us in class with consonant agreements so we decided we would cover that in our next tutoring session.