Sean TS #3

     I decided that I would focus on the girls’ pronunciations, so I printed out worksheets with exercises that stressed the long vowel sounds. Supplementing that I brought along a one page passage that would be easy to understand like “Aesop’s Fables”, which we would then discuss and comprehend together. This session was the time I realized just how divided Hye-In and Hye-Jeong were. Hye-In, the elder sister is much more focused and has a stronger innate motive to learn and study English in contrast to Hye-Jeong, who just wants something fun. I understood that I made my first mistake with tutoring children in that I did not have a kinesthetic activity plan for them. I revalued what the girls liked to do for fun since I was to teach both of them at the same time, so they ran to get books they wanted to read with me. Oddly, they both chose the same magazine which focused on teen idols and pop culture. Goodness gracious. At least they were both reading and practicing in the magazines. The girls wanted something colorful and eye popping or attention grabbing. We closed the lesson by reading some excerpts from a comic about the movie “Inside Out”.  They already watched the movie so I believed it was a novel idea as they could read and comprehend to a sense what the words were meaning in their linear sequence.