Casey TS #2

During the second hour of our first initial meeting, Indira and I worked on some simple grammar exercises so I could assess what level she was at. Indira says she has most of her experience with English through grammar books she uses to teach herself. I started with a super simple "To be" exercise between "is" and "was" because I knew I would be able to explain any incorrect answers fairly easily since I am very familiar with this grammatical function. The first exercise was a Elementary level fill-in-the-blank quiz for the verb "to be" in past and present form. Indira was very quick with this exercise which helped me try to adjust the difficulty of the activities I was giving her. The second activity wad for Pre-Intermediate level. focusing on "been" and "gone" for the present perfect tense. This activity was much more challenging for Indira, and honestly for me as well. We talked over the answers together afterwards and looked up the reasoning for when each verb is used to get some clarification.