Leslie TS #12


Leslie TS #12 CIES Building 6/18/18 4-5 p.m.

Jorge and I went over prepositions of direction, position, and location and did related quizzes. He talked about how he is using Uber for transportation. He had some questions about location of grocery stores, stores like Target, and cell phone stores. I brought him a campus map and a city/county map and we used those for orientation to place, travel routes, and mileages.  He showed me his CIES grades for his first session. He spoke about his accomplishments and progress in learning English during the past course period. He said his lowest grade was in grammar and he asked for assistance in all areas of grammar. He said he has difficulty understanding and remembering the definitions of grammar terms and parts. We reviewed parts of speech and simple present, past, and future tenses. One area confusing to him is possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. We will work on those next time. Later I emailed him links on those topics including YouTube tutorials and worksheets.

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