Date/time: December 2, 2015 3:30-4:30
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Speaking, idioms
Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee is very advanced so I usually try to correct every error as she makes it. Most of time it isn't that she makes errors without realizing as it is that she has a question about what she wants to say. For instance instead of making a verb tense error that I will correct, she will ask "Do I use the present perfect or simple past in this sentence?" Sometimes she makes preposition errors that she doesn't realize. Preposition collocations with verbs are especially difficult.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Idioms were kind of a fun topic. However, with regards to most idiom lists or activities on the internet, there were a lot of idioms that seemed to me to be very uncommon or outdated. It's possible they are very common in other dialects but they weren't familiar to me and I was apprehensive about teaching them. I ended up modifying the activity a lot to exclude a lot of idioms. For instance, the idiom "do (someone) in" as in to kill them didn't seem to me to be a very important idiom to know. The example sentences were especially awkward. Obviously my experience and feelings on particular idioms aren't universal but there are some vocabulary that seem so uncommon or outdated it seems silly to go through the effort of teaching them.
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