Fourth Meeting

When Josefina and I met, she was having trouble with the past tense, especially in tricky words without an -ed ending. We spent this lesson working on past tense. I gave her a list of verbs in infinitive form and she conjugated them into past, present and future tense. I then had her read the words to work on pronunciation. Her homework that week was to come up with six verbs, with at least three being tricky ending words, and conjugate them. Once the switch in words was explained, she picked up on it very quickly. One example was the phrase 'to bring.' When she conjugated it, she wrote future: will bring, present: bringing, past: bringed. I had her pronounce it and while she could tell it wasn't correct, she didn't know how to change it. Once we fixed it, I made her a list of all the complicated words that I could think of and told her to use them in a sentence. We then worked on sentences that contained all three tenses with different verbs. By the end of the lesson, she was comfortably switching between past and present tense.