Tutoring #4/5 - Fatima (2 hr)

 This past week, I meet with Fatima for our first 2-hour tutoring session! I was unsure how it would go, given we usually do a 1-hour session, however, I think it went fantastic and created an even better space to dive deeper into our lesson and make it fun on both ends. Fatima mentioned to me that she gets nervous going to the doctor with her daughters because she doesn't always understand or know how to respond to the doctor's questions. This comment jumped into my mind when I was creating my speaking lesson plan for the following week, so I made my lesson plan on medical terminology and common medical questions. I was so excited to meet with Fatima because it meant that I got to test my lesson plan out on her, and it went better than expected! I started the session by giving her a list of common medical terms such as symptom, allergy, headache, fever, and more; She crossed out the ones she knew, and the rest we went over and gave definitions to. After writing these vocab words out with their definitions, I asked her to use them in a sentence to me. After this warm-up, we went into our main activity, which was responding to common doctor's questions, where I had notecards of various questions that she pulled from, and tried to respond to each one - she did great! After this activity, we watched a short clip from Grey's Anatomy and she wrote down any words she wasn't familiar with so we could review them. Finally, she had worked so hard throughout the lesson, so we played heads-up for the rest of the time, working on her descriptions of people and facial expressions!

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