Jackson TP7

Last Monday I met with Fei for our third tutoring session at Red Elephant Café. It was both of our first times eating there, so it was a unique experience for both of us. At the end of our previous lesson we agreed that we would cover when and how to use gerunds and infinitives. I had already given this lesson with my other TP Jasem, but I knew that this lesson would be much different because of Fei’s English abilities as well as I wouldn’t be using a youtube video this time around. Fei seemed to pick up the functions of gerunds and infinitives immediately, and had no problem conjuring up examples of how both of them can respectively function as a subject, object, or compliment. Like all of our meetings, we also covered going through and editing Fei’s blog entries as well as revising a lesson plan that she would be turning in the next day. I’ve been basing what Fei’s needs are as far as grammar lesson based on both what she has expressed to me that she would like to learn as well as what we cover when we go over her textual work. I’ve decided that, since Fei speaks Chinese (a language that doesn’t use articles) that we would work on this grammar point for next week. I know that it is beyond her level of understanding and comprehension but I hope that after our lesson she may be more inclined to use articles in her writing and speech :)