Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Ellen TS# 15

Tutee: Do-jun Kim
Date/Time: Thursday 24 September 2015, 9:30-10:30 am

In this lesson we moved into conditional phrases. As usual, I began with an instructional video that covered the entire concept in a succinct manner. The issue with these videos is that they typically move a bit too fast for non-English speakers and are difficult for the students to connect with. So after the video I broke down the concept into a slower and more digestible form on a white board. In this first lesson we managed to cover just the zero conditional and first conditional forms. The first conditional form had a myriad of formats and made it very difficult to teach. It was difficult to explain to Do-jun why there was difference between the zero conditional and the first conditional. In the long run, Do-jun’s ability to use each form is more important than him knowing what each form has been classified as. We did not manage to get through all of the first conditional today. We will be working on the rest of the first through third conditionals during the next tutoring session.

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