For my final tutoring session with Alonso we went over a brief reading lesson. We had been looking up info ont the Blue Angels (in anticipation of the air show we saw yesterday…it was AWESOME!) So I thought that to catch his attention and to make a reading lesson really interesting we could use an article from an aviation magazine. I found one about a new jet that Cessna is releasing and came up with a brief worksheet asking comprehension questions about the article. Before he read it we went over some vocabulary and checked out the title and photos. Then he looked over the questions, skimmed the article and answered the first few. He got the gist of the article fairly easily, but there were a few words that I didn’t have in the vocabulary list that gave him some trouble so we spent some time on those.
It was great to see when he solved some of his questions and came to understand the points of the article. He also really got excited to learn about how to use aviation terms in English. One if his main reasons for coming to the U.S. was to learn the language so that he could come back to the states in the future and work as a pilot, but also to communicate with his boss back in Panama. His boss is German, and knows a little Spanish, but having Alonso be able to communicate in English would be a great help. The lesson went well over all and he learned some good vocab that we put to good use for our Pensacola road trip.
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