Chris TS#2

Yesterday after my CO, I met again with my adult tutee, Simge.

This time I had a good understanding of her strengths and weaknesses, so I came prepared. We began by reviewing some vocabulary and she knew it all. I gave her a verb tense worksheet. We started with simple perfect. She was able to complete it was ease, although she was unsure of when she would use this tense. I explained to her how and when to use it and then we moved on to present continuous.

She was very engaged with our present continuous tense activity. I think she must have been reviewing it in class because she understood this one very well. Anticipating this, I had another worksheet with some irregular verbs on it. I asked her to make sentences using the words in the present continuous. She did really well. When we got to "die," she wrote "dieing" at first. After reminding her that it was irregular, she corrected it to "dying." The sentence she came up with was really absurd, but in a funny way, so I chuckled when she finished writing it. I don't think she realized what it meant at first, but when she read it, she started laughing too. This was a great opportunity to explain how die can also be used in the idiom "I died laughing." A good laugh was a great way to end such a productive tutoring session!

I gave her a writing activity to do for homework and then we parted ways.