Christiana TS #4

Date/Time: May 29, 2017; 3:00-4:00 P.M.
Location: Campus Circle study rooms 
Topic: Present Continuous, Simple Past and Simple Present
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Did verb tense practice to study for upcoming quizzes, looked up grammar rules together learned about double consonant and syllable stress rules. 

For our third meeting Saeed and I once again met at the Campus Circle study center. He told me that he has a quiz on Wednesday on the the simple past, simple present, and present continuous verb tenses as they relate to the words yesterday, usually, and right now. I had printed out some information and examples on the tenses and briefly went over the rules and when they are used before pulling up some practice exercises on the computer that I had him work through. We also went over a list of irregular verbs that they had gone over in class and I made sure he knew the correct conjugations for those verbs so that he would be prepared if any of them showed up on the quiz. While we were practicing simple past we ran in to the word 'stop', which needed to be changed to 'stopped' and knowing that he may not have known about this I asked him how he would spell it and he said 'stoped'. I explained to him that that was not correct and explained that he would need a double 'p' for it to be correct and he asked why. Not being one hundred percent sure about the reasoning behind the rule, I googled it and found a very helpful video on a website, which he wanted to take down for his own later use. I was happy to learn something new with him and was also glad I was able to give him a resource to use in his future studies. After watching the video he was still a bit confused, but having grasped the concept I was able to further explain it to him until he understood more fully. We discussed this for a few more moments and then went over the points that we had practiced during our hour of tutoring one last time to make them stick. We decided that we would meet again this Wednesday to discuss how his quiz went, and I told him to decide what he would like to work on and let me know so I can prepare accordingly.