Tutoring #9/10 - Ruth (2 hrs)

 This morning I had a long tutoring session with Ruth, further practicing the use of Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous. We started by reviewing each tense, and I had her explain the difference to me in her own words. Next, I wrote out a few examples and we dissected them together, picking apart each aspect of the grammar. I had her write out a few example sentences for both tenses, and we went over them afterward. I noticed that her grammatical structure was great, using each tense correctly, however, the content of the sentence was wrong. For example, she would say "I have been knowing", which is technically correct for future perfect continuous (have + been + ___ing), however, we native speakers would never say that. Instead, we would say "I have known", the future perfect tense. I found this extremely hard to explain to Ruth because it was one of those things that "we just don't say like that". I couldn't find the right words to explain why we wouldn't say "have been knowing". I enjoy having the practice of working through difficult situations like that because it's only prepping me for the future when I'm teaching for real! I also think I'm getting the hang of doing Zoom tutoring. I wasn't sure how to initially approach online tutoring, but I've found some things necessary: 1. I need to see your face and your mouth on the screen in order to be able to better read lips. 2. Screen sharing makes explaining things a lot easier when you can type on a shared document and both of you can read the same thing. 3. having a note pad next to me to write out my thoughts and corrections. These things are very necessary when tutoring online, and I finally have figured that out - woohoo! I am so proud of the hard work Ruth puts in every time I see her!

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