Selene TP-10

Today, Matthew and I worked out of a worksheet book that Matthew's mother brought to our session. The overarching topic was verbs: direct objects, irregular verbs, and helping verbs. I was surprised by how much trouble Matthew had with these because he has done very well so far with grammar activities. Mainly he had trouble conjugating the article with the correct verb tense. For example, he kept writing down "they has" or "he have." This was very surprising to me because he speaks perfectly fluent English and was born in the U.S. Maybe his parents' inability to help him with his homework is causing him to fall behind. He also struggled with the past participle, going through many made up words like "leden" and "dreamen" before arriving at the correct answer with some help from me. I, again, couldn't tell at first whether he was just fooling around, because his reading, speaking, and listening skills are so much more advanced than what he demonstrated today with the worksheets. It's a good thing, though, since now I know where his weakness is and we can have more targeted activities from now on.