Leslie TS #13


Leslie TS #13 CIES Building 6/19/18 1-2 p.m.

Jorge had looked at some of the homework links I had sent. We watched one of them again—a YouTube video of a very good teacher presenting a lesson on possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. On the second watching, Jorge paused the video and I asked him questions to assess his understanding of the English and the grammar constructs. Then he took a 10-question quiz and he talked through his answer choices. He reviewed the questions and answers and logic, and I asked him similar questions. He was understanding the usages better than before. He seemed surprised that he got all 10 questions correct. I encouraged him and reinforced that he was “getting it” and it may take putting more time into tutorials and quizzes. I showed him other good sites for this topic. We had a brief discussion of some of the cognates between English and Portuguese, and how to take advantage of the words that are useful in everyday communication but not be confused by any differences.

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