So the whole arranging lessons with 4 or 5 people from work has been a bit of a rocky process at best. Despite having plans for lessons for the last three weekends I've only been able to sit down once, with one person. It's a difficult thing to have schedules line up, and I totally understand last minute plan changes, so I think in moving forward I'll try to just set up things individually, or with maybe two people. Even though a group is fun for activities, it's a lot easier to focus on each student with one or two at a time. So, Jesus and I met up to go over some basic grammar points. We started with a review of the alphabet and vocabulary, some from the previous session and some that we'd use in the activity. I had a worksheet about the present tense verbs 'To Be' 'To Like' 'To Need'. Unlike the previous class I made an effort to use mainly English for this one, I made sure to speak clearly and to repeat things multiple times. I also got him to start asking basic questions in English, there's a lot of vocabulary to be learned just in the words necessary to have a class, so working only in Spanish would definitely cut out that opportunity.
The lesson went really well, and when we were going over the worksheet he had learned the conjugations well enough by the latter half of the page that he didn't have to look back to the example/ verb chart he had to fill in the blanks. We also spent a lot of time on pronunciation. I'd have him read a question, figure out the answer, and then re-read it. Unknowingly I put a lot of double 'e' words in this activity which turned out to be useful because he had difficulty pronouncing them at first, but by the end would recognize similar words and correct himself if he mispronounced something. After about an hour of that we took a quick break...
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