Alexa TS #13

Today (6/28/17, 7:00-9:00) I met up with Sultan for tutoring. The first thing we did was go over some verbs and their different verb tenses. This is something i definitely need to improve in because it was really hard to think of examples for some of the verbs because some of them are not used very often. Also, there were times where he would ask me why something was the way it was, and I wasn't able to give an appropriate answer because learning English was obviously different for me. I learned it as a child before really even understanding the rules, and then the rules are things that I went over years ago. It was just something I picked up without really knowing why things were a certain way. After going over some verbs, Sultan read through a story, answered comprehension questions, and summarized the story. We finished off tutoring with going over some more vocabulary and teaching him how to pronounce the words as well as defining them for further understanding. Furthermore, I helped him with some conversational English so he could talk about his brother's family. We always meet up at Starbucks, and it was cool to see him with food and a drink for the first time during tutoring now that Ramadan is over.