During my last tutoring session with Eduardo and Maria, I felt like I did a better job of explaining the verb tenses and we made some good progress. Each session I ask them what they want to do, and tell them we can go over whatever they want. This time we went over Maria’s exams, but the majority of the time was still spent on verb tenses.
When going over her exams, there were a couple questions that I didn’t understand why she missed. I took a picture of them on my phone and told her I would check and get back to her. Then, to study verb tenses some more, I showed them a presentation I found online with animations on a timeline to show the tenses. This seemed to help them. I also explained to them the importance of not getting overwhelmed when identifying the verb tense. I told them, “first, identify: past, present, or future”. Then ask questions like “does it use ‘have/has’?, then it’s probably a perfect tense verb”. “Does it use ‘ing’? Then it’s probably a progressive tense verb.” Lastly, I went over the present and future tenses of the verb “to be”, since they need to know these for using progressive tenses. Eduardo had already learned all these, but Maria hadn’t memorized the past tenses. I told her it was really important to know these in general, and for the progressive verbs.
I felt happy because they finally made a lot of progress with these verbs. They’re really nice and I’m glad I have such great tutees! I hope that I can answer all their questions by looking them up and sending them helpful answers!
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