Breanna TS #10

Date/Time: 5/23/16 6:00 PM

Location: Player’s club apartment complex clubhouse

Topic/Skill: Past tense irregular verbs/trip to NYC and cooking

Feedback provided to tutee: This session I organized the past tense irregular verbs in a series of categories related to topics. We only got through two topics in this session because we spent a good bit of time taking about our weekends (using past tense verbs of course). The topics included traveling, using the irregular verbs: drove, flew, went, and left, and cooking a meal using the irregular verbs: drank, ate, gave, grew, and made. We started with the travel topic, and I told her to talk about any trip she has gone on in the past, I gave her the list of verbs, I told her to try to use these verbs as often as she could, but to focus more on the story of her trip. She used so many past tense irregular verbs! I had to do very little error correction in this session, I think she was just excited to communicate her thoughts and talk about a trip that meant so much to her, and cooking, which is one of her favorite hobbies.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I have realized just how well Diana excels at using words in context. Giving her free reign to practice these words in her normal conversation, in a communicative approach has been very beneficial for her. I noticed her usage of irregular past tense verbs improve so much more in this conversational approach than in previous sessions.