US Citizenship Preparation: Tutor Community

One of our tutors found these YouTube videos on the N400 to be helpful for his students and wanted to share (Thanks, Barry!):

1) N-400 Application Form – Mock Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTnwGo9HQcI&t=37s
2) Citizenship N-400 Part 1-12 (Version 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16BaDLCUWg&t=41s
3) Citizenship N-400 Part 1-12 (Version 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YKxkSdib4&t=33s
4) USCIS Citizenship Interview Opening Questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVFPDUNIgg&t=50s
5) N-400 Vocabulary Pronunciation and Understanding Practice (with Chinese captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Ddefs3W-4&t=325s
6) Words to learn – Citizenship Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3klb7_35Ww

American Citizenship Test - Immigration | Univisión - Univision There are 100 possible questions on the official USCIS U.S citizenship civics test. How many can you answer?
Good luck!

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Quizlet is another medium you can use with your student to test them on the 100 civics questions:

https://quizlet.com/2038551/us-citizenship-test-flash-cards/

U.S. Citizenship Test 100 terms · The Constitution → What is the supreme law of the…, Protects the basic rights of Americans → What does the Constitution do?, We The People → What are the first three words…, a change/addition (to the constitution) → What is an amendment?

To spice up your lessons, the USCIS website offers an audio/visual multiple choice quiz on Interview Commands that your student can practice with you and then by themselves for homework:
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Section%20Items/INTERACTIVE%20Section%20Items/Vocabulary%20Activities%20for%20the%20Naturalization%20Test/uscis-vocabulary-test-3/uscis_test3.html

Understanding Commands for the Naturalization Interview

The USCIS website has a lot of tutoring resources. This link is a PDF of commands commonly encountered during the Naturalization Interview (the PDF is also located in Dropbox):
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/files/Understanding_Commands_Classroom_Materials.pdf

www.uscis.gov

One of our tutors created a beautiful US history timeline because his student was confused about dates. If you'd like to use it, go to the Dropbox account and look under the Civics Questions folder.

In order to access the tutor resources on the Dropbox account, click here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/crqcfb1hkwx3eqi/AADythzTMisAfOtN9bgq8FyIa

Tutor Materials Shared with Dropbox

We asked one of our clients who recently passed her interview what she thought was the most helpful in terms of tutoring. She said keywords from each question and also videos of naturalization interviews. Create flashcards of key words and search "naturalization interview" on YouTube. One of our tutors liked Phillip Truong's "Citizenship Interviews" and Julie Pittman's N400 (audio only).

http://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/teachers/lesson-plans-and-activities

Lesson Plans and Activities | USCIS USCIS offers lesson plans with instructions and teaching strategies for novice and seasoned ESL instructors preparing students for U.S. citizenship. Lessons include content on American Government, American History, and Integrated Civics covered in the Civics Test as well as language needed for the r…

http://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/study-test/study-materials-english-test

Study Materials for the English Test | USCIS The English test has three components: reading, writing, and speaking. Your ability to speak English will be determined by a USCIS Officer during your eligibility interview on Form N-400, Application for Naturalization. For the reading portion, you must read one out of three sentences correctly. For…