Kourtney Wilson TS #14

Date/Time: 12/15, Sanghun Kim   

Location: Zoom Meeting

Topic Discussed: Reading/Speaking skills 


For this lesson, I prepared slides and the first slide showed the agenda. The lesson incorporated both reading and speaking skills, both skills Sanghun Kim wanted to work on. I found a word scrambler generator on the internet and I used it to scramble sentences up as a fun way to get the lesson going. I had ten questions that I asked him, that in order for him to answer correctly he had to unscramble the sentence. After this I had pulled two worksheets from a site, I found that provides free worksheets. The worksheets first checked reading comprehension. I had him read aloud the passage so I could correct any words that he didn’t understand or got stuck on. The reading passage was about a famous photograph in Paris. The true of false questions were basically like – 

 

1.     The photograph was taken in 1838 TF

2.     The photograph is famous because it was taken by Louis Deguerre. TF

3.     The photograph shows a street in Paris TF

 

All of these questions (I only listed some, there were 10 true/false questions) were able to be answered by the information that was in the passage. After the true/false there were some short answer questions about the passage that I had him type in on my screen in full sentences to also help on his writing if needed. Some of these questions were – 

 

1.     Why is the photograph famous?

2.     Why was the man having his shoes cleaned able to be seen in the photograph?

 

These are all questions that can be easily answered by reading the passage. After this worksheet, I provided another worksheet similar. This one was about a bad eating experience that had similar questions about the passage after. 

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