Alexander Miguel TS#5

 Yesterday afternoon I met for a third time with Maryna. We continued where we left off last with correct tense usage in forming hypotheticals, although this time we focused entirely on grammar. Maryna's main confusion lay in when to use the simple past or the present perfect. I modelled some sentences on a sheet of paper, and went over various examples as part of the activity. After demonstrating some different models, I used an inductive approach to explain the correct tense usage based on the examples. The main hurdle I realized came not with tenses, but with aspects. I figured out a pattern based on when perfective and imperfective verbs were used, and explained this to Maryna. I gave the explanation that imperfect verbs show incomplete action, while perfective verbs show completed actions. I tried using an example of an imperfective/perfective verb pair from Ukrainian, although this confused the point too much. Nevertheless, by the end of the session, Maryna was able to use the correct tenses on her own. 

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