Keira TS #10
Date/Time: June 28, 2017 - 4:40pm
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Question-asking/Phrasing/Past Tense
Casias and I met today and spent most of our session going over some reoccurring problems he has been having in his classes. Despite his high fluency and his very fast rate of speech, he has a hard time with matters such as "Do I say 'were you' or 'was you'?" and "Is it 'many car' or 'many cars'?"
Feedback Provided to Tutee: Casias and I talked about a lot of different types of questions and sentences that he commonly comes across in his studies. This involved some discussion of questions beginning with or involving the worlds "were," "what," and "was," as well as the differences in use between "do," "does," and "did." Additionally, he is still struggling a little with knowing when to conjugate verbs to the past tense. We shared a lot of examples. I would explain the rule or rules of what we were discussing in its original context (e.g. the subject/verb agreement of "There are many cars"), share a different example, and have him provide new examples, too.
Lesson(s) about Tutoring and/or the Tutee You Learned: Casias' English is, in general, advanced enough that he wants to begin nitpicking certain aspects of his speaking or writing, such as the time he asked me for more transitional words he could use in his essays despite already successfully using a number of them. However, there are still some more basic concepts that he needs to focus on and master in order to improve the test scores he is receiving and stop receiving repeated comments on his assignments.
Location: Starbucks
Topic/Skill: Question-asking/Phrasing/Past Tense
Feedback Provided to Tutee: Casias and I talked about a lot of different types of questions and sentences that he commonly comes across in his studies. This involved some discussion of questions beginning with or involving the worlds "were," "what," and "was," as well as the differences in use between "do," "does," and "did." Additionally, he is still struggling a little with knowing when to conjugate verbs to the past tense. We shared a lot of examples. I would explain the rule or rules of what we were discussing in its original context (e.g. the subject/verb agreement of "There are many cars"), share a different example, and have him provide new examples, too.
Lesson(s) about Tutoring and/or the Tutee You Learned: Casias' English is, in general, advanced enough that he wants to begin nitpicking certain aspects of his speaking or writing, such as the time he asked me for more transitional words he could use in his essays despite already successfully using a number of them. However, there are still some more basic concepts that he needs to focus on and master in order to improve the test scores he is receiving and stop receiving repeated comments on his assignments.
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