TP 7: Caitlin

I met Rachida at her house to study this time. Rachida was practicing her vocabulary and grammar structures when we met. She offered me a glass of water and we talked about our weeks for a few minutes before we started. She wanted to work on modal verbs so I had prepared some activities beforehand. I ended up forgetting my nice little summary that had the definitions of the different modal verbs and my activity ended up being a British English activity with a lot of examples of the modal verb “ought”  but it went well overall. When Rashida and I had first tried to meet up, she didn’t understand when I asked, “when would you like to meet?” I wrote out a sentence with different verbs to explain when modal verbs can be used and how the different sentences can sometimes mean the same thing.  For example:

Would you like to meet at 5:30?

Can we meet at 5:30?

Do you want to meet at 5:30?

She liked the worksheets that I did but I wish I had not forgotten my paper that had the definitions of the different verbs and when to use them. She kept the worksheets but wanted the scaffolding structure to help her remember the verbs we talked about and to help her remember when to use them. The next time we meet, I’m going to take her the info sheet and we will review the modal verbs and then we are going to work on reading some short articles/essays (level appropriate this time) for comprehension.