FranciscoTP-12

My little brother and I looked over some of his English homework for the weekend this morning. The little guy likes to get up early and I could not go back to sleep at 9:00 am so we decided to have our last tutoring session before I fly back to the states tomorrow afternoon. We first began by looking at a short English quiz in which he performed fairly well on but did not understand his mistakes. The mistakes deal with some of the irregular verbs that he did not know. Mariano asked me if there is any way to easily remember the irregular forms of "make" or "leave" and I laughed, telling him that sadly, there isn't, its just something he has to memorize. We went over the fill-in-the-blanks that he missed and I made sure that my little brother knew his mistakes. We then started going over some of the vocabulary words he has to learn that deals with American holidays and festivals. Some of the events covered included: "Halloween" "Mother's Day" "The fourth of July" and "Easter." While I was explaining some of the vocabulary words to my brother, I quickly noticed how easy it was for him to understand these words when I used some examples in his native language. It was a lot easier to teach my little brother some of these English vocabulary words since I knew Spanish and was able to use it towards our benefit. I quickly realized how beneficial this skill can become if I were to teach in a country that also has Spanish as their native language. I now plan on looking extensively for a TEFL gig where the native language is Spanish.