Sunday, June 5, 2016

Breanna TS #4

Date/Time: 5/15/16 10:45 AM

Location: Starbucks N. Monroe St.

Topic/Skill: Past Tense Irregular Verbs

Feedback provided to tutee: This was Diana and I’s first session together. Beforehand I had spoken with one of her professors, Mr. Wilson, and he told me Diana needed help with past tense irregular verbs as well as differentiating between do/did/does. I prepared a few worksheets before I went into the lesson, but Diana wanted to work on irregular past verbs the whole time. So we looked at the list from her book and began by going down the list of verbs. Diana took each word, and created a sentence with it out loud, and then she wrote it down. Because she is a foundations level student, I corrected her with errors such as missing articles, preposition errors, etc. She asked for me to fix any spelling mistakes she had when she wrote them down as well. We covered various vocabulary words ranging from irregular past verbs she did not know such as “hunt, “bled,” “hung,” to words such as “nail,” and “hammer.”
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Diana is going to give me excellent practice in choosing my words more carefully. I feel as though I am able to speak at the proper pace when I need to, but I often forget about choosing level appropriate words. Diana is a foundations level student, and she is a perfectionist, so any word I say that she does not know, she makes me stop and thoroughly explain it to her. She has difficultly figuring out words on her own based on the context of the words around it because she wants to make sure she has a perfect understanding of everything she hears.

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