Yesterday afternoon, I met with my adult tutee, Simge. We began working on an activity in which she was to fill-in-the-blanks for sentences by using the correct adverb: just, yet, or already. She did fairly well,, but just had some trouble with the correct usage of "just." We reviewed this and also some of the vocabulary words in the text that she did not know.
After this, I had brought a worksheet that dealt with prepositions. I noticed in our last lesson, these were giving her some trouble. First, I had her write out a list of all the prepositions she knew. She remembered quite a few! She then used these as a word bank to fill-in-the-blanks for a paragraph with all the prepositions removed. The passage was fairly long, so it took us quite a while to get through. She only need help for a few of the blanks- I was impressed!
In our remaining time, I asked if she had anything that was specifically giving her trouble. She took out a homework assignment in which she was to write down an English idiom and explain what it meant and how to use it. I explained what an idiom was and gave her the example "piece of cake." She understood, but couldn't stop laughing because it seemed silly. In Turkey, she told me, they have a similar expression, "like a baby doll." This one got me laughing! Then she asked me if "up in the air" was an idiom, because she had just heard it recently. It was, so we decided to use it for her homework!
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