During my third week, I worked with two students that I tutored previously. The Hungarian woman came in for the first hour. We worked on some new vocabulary and just chatted about our plans for the next weekend. Again, my (limited) German skills were helpful, but I made sure that we only spoke in German when absolutely necessary.
My second student was the Chinese woman that I had tutored before. We started out reading a story, which she read quickly and with ease. But after we finished, she just kept going through vocabulary, getting almost all of it correct. I finally realized that the lessons we were doing were far too easy for her, and she agreed. After that we worked on verb conjugation, especially with the verb “to be.” I made a verb-chart for her of the present and past tense of ‘to be,’ and then we practiced by changing present tense sentences into past tense sentences. It was actually quite fun. At the very end of the lesson, she taught me a little bit of Chinese, and described in general how their language works. It was really fascinating how different their language is from English.
So far, I have really enjoyed tutoring. I have always had the hunch that I would be a good teacher, and my experience here at NALC has really confirmed that. But not only am I good at it, I really enjoy it. It’s something I will keep in mind when trying to figure out a career.
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