Date/Time: Oct. 20/ 12:50~13:50
Location: CIES students’ rest place
Topic/Skill: Listening to and understanding the
meaning of the past unreal conditional tense in conversation/ speaking and
grammar
Feedback provided to tutor, Frankie: He asked
me what I wanted to know directly, which made me think what I needed to know
and helped me tell what I hadn’t understood. I told him that I had difficulties in understanding
contractions listening to them. He required
me to take examples of them. They were naturally
related to the past unreal conditional tense. I also was confused with the differences
between ‘would have’ and ‘could have’. I
thought they were interchangeable, but Frankie explain the difference creating examples
for me.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutor you
learned: His major are philosophy and classics and modern English came partly from
ancient Greek and is much simpler than it, so he knows English grammar well. However,
his explanation was a little difficult for me to understand, because he used grammatical
terms which I hadn’t known. He used the term, ‘qualify’, which imply to make a statement
or assertion less absolute like if clause in the past conditional tense. In
addition, he taught me the noun, ‘quality’, which I’d known only the basic
meaning, the opposite of quantity. Besides that, it means peculiar and essential
character. The differences between ‘would have’ and ‘could have’ are follows: ‘Would
have’ expresses more vivid future while ‘could have’ indicates less vivid
future. (a) If I had had a car, I would have picked you up. (b) If I had had a
car, I could have picked you up. The sentence (a) suggests the speaker really wanted
to do it, but s/he didn’t. The sentence (b) conveys the speaker said it was one
of many possibilities.
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