I met with Yujeong at Starbucks, because Dunkin Donuts was very noisy. She has been very good at having material ready that she wants to go over recently. At the end of one our previous tutoring sessions she started asking questions present perfect, but I had not felt comfortable answering her questions. I did not know/ remember enough information to feel like a helpful source. Her specific questions at the time were about present perfect, but she definitely was struggling with perfect tenses overall.
So, I studied up a lot about perfect tenses and we spent most of our tutoring session discussing them. We went over the formula for each tense and the easiest way to remember them. Part of the difficulty she has with perfect is understanding when in time the action is actually happening. So I drew charts for each perfect tense to show her what they all mean.
I gave her sample sentences and had her change it to each perfect tense for a few rounds. With Yujeong, even when she does not understand something at first, she learns very quickly. So she was able to change each sentence with little or no help from me. I think going over each tense at a much slower more detailed pace was really what she needed to fully grasp it.
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