This past Monday, I went over to my cousins' house to give them tuition again
This time I started with some newspaper reading and that got their interest as they started to notice that some articles in the newspaper were indeed worth reading and some were quite interesting too
Then I also brought the newspaper discussion beyond the newspaper article itself and talked about other related incidents which really got their interest and I even cracked some jokes which got the tuition started on a cheerful and less monotonous mood. Their interest level was certainly sustained throughout the whole session this time around without them dozing off hahas!
For today's tuition, with the younger primary school guys, I introduced some reading of individual characters and tones for the chinese words rather than just getting them to read passage after passage and that helped in getting them a little more interested in reading, I even had them do some writing so they really enjoyed it too seeing as they had been giving feedbacks to me that they wanted to do some writing as well.
Hahas, this is certainly a start in getting the tuition sessions more lively and interactive. I surely do hope I can come up with ways to sustain this interest level for future sessions. Well, at least I do think that my "students" have seen that their Chinese tuition sessions need not be monotonous and boring so that's definitely a START!!
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