Melannie TS #6

Tutee

On Wednesday, I had met with my Turkish tutee. Kubra and I have been working on the present perfect tense because she had explained to me from our first meeting that she did not fully understand it. I had found an activity with me to use with her as well as a great sentence structure rule for present perfect tense. This handout had different sentences using the present perfect tense with explanation and examples. There would be one about when to use present perfect with time frame, or when to use it with a negative concept, etc. I gave her that handout to review and to use to study the present perfect; however, I handed that to her after the activity. Because she is mostly a higher level than the students I teach at the camp, I always do an activity with her first before teaching her about the topic. The activity I had given to Kubra was a chapter 6 present perfect tense exercise I had found online: https://www.colomboarmenia.com/files/documentos/6820140219091338.pdf. This activity was also a scaffolding type. One of the parts in this worksheet was that I had her read aloud the story paragraph and find the grammar mistakes. At the end of our session, I gave her homework to complete, her homework is a writing activity where she is to write about her travel experience using the present perfect and simple past tense while answering the question provided to her. I will also be going over the different sounds of "ough" within the different words it is found in. She was struggling to pronounce "though", "think", thought", and "bought". 

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