Ganem TP-1

On Thursday, May 19^th, the class met in the CIES lounge to meet our tutees. We were e-mailed who our assigned tutee was. I was originally assigned two Turkish students named Fahad Bashnafa and Naser Binmugbe. They didn’t show up. A lot of the students in the TEFL class didn’t meet their assigned tutees because the tutees weren’t there. So Ramin assigned us different Tutees who were in the lounge. I was assigned to be an Egyptian student’s tutor. His name is Ahmad Hussein.

Ahmad introduced himself. He is from a town right outside of Cairo. He told me was a GIS major. I asked him what GIS was. He said it stood for geoinformatics science. This meant he would use equipment to measure and photograph the terrain of an environment and then work with other scientists to display and diagram it on a computer. I asked if he learned the classes in Arabic or English. He told me the instructions for the process and the textbook were in English, but the teachers instructed in Arabic.

I asked him what area of English he wanted to work on for tutoring. He replied he wanted help with writing. He told me he felt confident in his speaking and listening skills and wanted to focus on exclusively on writing. I asked him when he would be available to meet and he said he is usually busy during weekdays. He told me that weekends were the best time for him to meet up. I asked if he liked to read at all in English and he told me no. I told him reading helps with writing because it would give him examples to imitate and understand for his writing. He told me it was useful advice.

He then looked at his watch and told me he had to leave early. He apologized for this and then left the lounge.