I tutored In-Hwa this past Friday and prepared a reading and a speaking class for her. Her reading, writing, and listening skills are much more advanced than her speaking skills, so I focused the class on pronunciation and sentence production. Since she seems to comprehend almost everything I say a normal pace, I selected an 'advanced level' passage Remains of a Marriage. She learned words like flabbergasted, innate, and irreverent, but her comprehension of this passage was about 70%, so we decided to pick an intermediate level passage instead. One good thing did come from this passage though. I taught her pronunciation of the word 'irreverent' by repeating it 15 times and she was finally able to hear the difference (and produce) "irreverent" instead of "illevelent".
The next passage was about Yellowstone. She read it aloud and it was fantastic! She learned what a moose, grizzly bear, geyser, snow mobile, and snow coach was. We also went over the difference between couch versus coach. I showed her the vocabulary through pictures and asked if she had heard of these. Once we got done with the passage, I asked her to tell me what the new vocabulary was and to define it in her own words. A moose, apparently, is a deer horse. She then answered reading comprehension questions about the passage. I had her say the answers in complete sentences.
This website is very useful for finding level appropriate material!
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Informational%20Passages%20RC%20-%20Yellowstone.pdf
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