Gabe - TS #12

     For this session, I decided to give him a pop quiz on the 4 verb tenses of the past that we had gone over previously. I decided to do this because we hadn't talked about verb tenses for a while and I was curious to see if he had retained this knowledge. I had only intended for the pop quiz to take maybe 10 minutes at most but he spent a while on it. This was because my instructions on the quiz itself apparently weren't self-explanatory enough and he kept answering the questions, not with incorrect grammar, but not with what was being asked of him. For example, the second question asked him to pick one regular and one irregular verb, and then conjugate them in the 4 past tenses. He instead wrote four sentences for one verb. After explaining the directions to him more thoroughly, he was able to give me relevant answers that were also grammatically correct. 

    After the quiz, we talked about the tenses a little more in depth. Through this conversation, and the answers that he gave on the quiz, I could tell that not only had he retained the information, but his understanding of the verbs tenses, how they worked, and when to use them was fairly well-developed. However, his reading comprehension still lags behind. Since the pop quiz ended up taking a little longer than I had planned, we weren't able to finish the next lesson I had planned: how to use the prepositions at, in, and on in terms of time and in terms of place. He has mentioned to me before that he struggles with understanding the differences between these prepositions, especially in terms of place. We had enough time to go over at, in, and on as they relate to time, and he seemed to understand how to use these pretty well, but I had to save the rest for next time we met.

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