Daniella TS #9

 Tutoring session #9: November 6th


Date/Time: Saturday november 6th 3:30

Location: Student union

Topic/Skill: Gerunds and Infinitives 

Feedback provided to the tutee: Today wasn’t the most productive tutoring lesson. Last class he told me that we should work on Gerunds and Infinitives so I showed him a slideshow of fill in the blanks for gerunds and infinitives after giving him linguistic support of the purpose and when they are used. Although he was able to grasp the concept of the infinitive is used for abstract ideas and the gerund is always used after prepositions. he didn’t really understand the idea that the gerund and infinitive exist at certain times before and after the main verb therefore the feedback I provided was mostly just giving fill in the blanks that have prepositions before it or have an abstract idea. 



Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that it’s important to have a lot of patience. It was very frustrating that Miguel kept on only focusing so much on grammar to explain which word it was. Only using the fact that the main verb is either in the past or present tense. And when I try to explain that he needs to pay attention more to the meaning so he understands the order of actions he just wasn’t getting it. Therefore I had to simply remind myself that in other countries a lot more emphasis in placed on grammar when learning and it’s very hard to undo that thinking. Moreover I have to remember to prepare a lot more supplementary materials because even though I assumed this would just be a review he needed more assistance then I assumed

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