Sheridan T.S #2

January 22, 2020

Tutoring # 2

Mohammed Shaek
Catalina Cafe
'Listening & Speaking'

  On Wednesday at approximately 4:00 PM, I met with Mohammed at the CIES center after I was finished with my conversation partner.  He and I walked to Catalina Cafe, which is located next to Greenwise on Gaines Street.  We talked about our days and how our classes were going and what we were doing for the rest of the day.  Once we got to Catalina, we ordered food and sat down to eat.  I told him what I expected of him today and what I was going to help him with for the next 3 hours.
  The first topic we covered was listening and speaking.  I showed him a Ted Talk on Youtube that I wanted him to listen to.  The individual in the Ted Talk is a good friend of mine who tells his story about how he injured himself and the repercussions after the matter.  He is paralyzed from the chest down.  He talked about perception; how he viewed himself and how others viewed him.  After I showed Mohammed the video, I asked him to take a few minutes to come up with a short summary of the clip off the top of his head that he should recite to me.  I played the clip partially again so that he could recap what had happened at the beginning of the video in case he forgot.  After a few minutes, I asked him to summarize the video in a few sentences.  He did a great job of this!  I corrected any pronunciation or grammatical errors that I thought were incorrect and could sound better.