Ellie Sims TS#4

Date: 8/21/18
Location: CIES Building
Topic: Present, Past, Future Perfect Continuous

I met with Karina about the different perfect continuous tenses. She was asking me about how to tell when to use them versus the simple tenses. We went over this topic for the whole session and she slowly started to understand it. Karina is a lower level in her classes but she speaks very well and can write very well so she asked if we could do more advanced sessions than he classwork. I went over her quizzes she got back but she only had one mistake so I agreed that I will bring her more advanced worksheets because it seemed like she was not progressing anymore in the classes she is in because they are too easy. We said that we would do a very speaking heavy exercise next time because she understands grammar really well but cannot get it out while she is speaking. She stumbles and hold back when we speak so I decided we will try more hands on approaches next time, like taking a walk and picking topics as we walk from the environment around us, causing her to speak on the spot and not think too closely about the rules of grammar. We went over a worksheet I brought about the different perfect continuous tenses and we corrected the mistakes she made, showing her why it was so. She seemed to be challenged by the worksheets and asked me to bring more like it. Overall, it was a good tutoring session.