Milton_TP_#5

Milton_TP_#5

Student Name: Ramon Matos                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Date: Monday, February 2-2015                                                                                                               Location: CIES, 5:30pm.

Skill – Reflexive Pronouns, Possessive adjectives, Personal Pronouns and Speaking - (pronunciation).

We practice the use of Personal pronouns – he, she, me, you and it. He had sentences with blanks for practice with several choices. I tried to remind him the need to become familiar with words related to male or female, an easy source of errors for personal pronoun students.

Possessive adjectives, (my, your, his, her) combined with subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it). Ramon had a series of sentences for practice. He did quite well with few errors. We used an internet site with examples, tolearnenglish.com and used a higher level of pronouns and possessive adjectives exercises and Ramon did quite well.

The reflexive pronouns are harder for him and with more practice he will dominate the subject, (myself, yourself , himself , herself , oneself , ourselves, yourselves). Error example - Please, forward the information to myself. A reflexive pronoun is a special kind of pronoun that is usually used when the object of a sentence is the same as the subject. Each personal pronoun (such as "I", "you" and "she") has its own reflexive form.

We tried the site grammar.monter.com and found lots of exercises for reflexive pronouns.

He practiced converting simple present sentences to simple past. No problem he dominates the subject.

Ramon decided to take the TOFEL test and he is taking a class and spending long hours doing exercises. He has a PhD in statistics and he loves to teach. He is also studying for the GRE test with the intention of getting into graduate school. He’s goal is to complete a master degree at FSU. He is a mature hard working student and motivated for success.  

Lesson Learned: I will help Ramon finding short stories that he can read and summarize for his reading class. He needs help with pronunciation. I will emphasize the importance of paying attention of which vowel or consonant carries the weight of the pronunciation. In our Hispanic culture we tend to make silent some consonants and that is a big source of pronunciation errors in English.