McKenzie TS #3

 McKenzie Heeter

Tutoring Session #3

Advanced student-in person

June 10,2025 - 12pm-1

      This is the third meeting with my tutee Mariana, for this session I printed out a worksheet with fill in the blank questions regarding verb tenses. It touches on simple past, simple present, and will-future tenses, which are some she has struggles with prior. I let her complete it by herself, urging her to ask questions if she needs help, then after she reads each sentence to me and we discuss if it's right or not. If it happens to be wrong I go into a brief explanation and try to guide her to the right answer. 

    Next I had her do an online, multiple choice activity with grammar. She would answer each question by herself but I'd guide her if they were wrong. Lastly, we did a fill in the blank with past perfect continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect verb tenses. This one was the most challenging because the program wanted the sentences super formal and there were many correct answers. 

Today I learned about teaching past tenses and also how to explain what little things help make sentences formal.

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