Jackson_TP5

Last Thursday I met with my tutoring partner Jasem once again for a grammar lesson on independent and dependent clauses. Tutoring Jasem has been very interesting, particularly because he has already taken and passed his TOEFL exam. As a result of this, he isn't really interested in practicing the different elements of the exam, and is instead interested in learning as much grammar as he possibly can. Jasem is a very receptive learner and hasn't had any trouble with our previous lessons but he seemed to struggle a little bit with constructing clause phrases on his own. He understood fully that a dependent clause is "dependent" because it doesn't function on its own as a sentence, but when he was trying to combine sentences on his own he seemed to struggle. We continued to work on them using "games" that I had found through google as well as video examples on Youtube. I told Jasem that we would continue working on clauses during our next lesson and asked him if, for our next session, if he would be willing to write me two paragraphs on something important to him. I plan on going over his writing with him and showing him how to alter his sentences into complex clause phrases. I will let you all know how this strategy works the next time we meet!