Jia and I attempted in our next tutoring session to continue practice from the last session on what I noted to help her out with: prepositions, articles, and clauses. We started with her homework, which was to write five interview questions, as well as answer them. She had an extremely hard time with this, which was surprising, because Jia is 30 years old. But, she was a piano performance major in college, and she said she can’t remember high school very well. So, she said she really has no past knowledge of asking professional questions or even writing essays. So, though it was difficult, because those sorts of exercises depend on the students’ creativity, and my own was flowing, I attempted to aid her without giving her the answers. Then, once she had concocted five questions, it was a lot easier for her to answer them. Then, we mainly focused on prepositions. This was imperative, as she had just struggled through a test on them. I wish I could have gotten to her before taking the test, although we did practice prepositions the last tutoring session. Her failing grade meant I needed to help her, so I asked her what exactly she was missing. Of course, it was the huge struggle between at versus in. I had printed her four pages of preposition activities and practice of at/in, thankfully, so we started with that. But, I really couldn’t give her an answer, so in my own frustration, I gave her an activity, and went to the computers in the library. I had already researched the difference between the two, but I finally found myself a clear answer. So, I came back to her with this answer, and we quickly took a break before attacking it.
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