Lucy TP-8

I took Yuki to Blackdog Cafe for this tutoring session. We sat out on the deck and I worked with Yuki on some of his homework. He had a test the next day in Grammar but felt pretty confident about it. Of everyone  I work with, Yuki asks the most questions. Often, they are 'why' questions, which I never feel like I answer adequately. He had questions about "absent, versus absence" "different versus difference" and the word "would", as in, "I would attend the concert, but I can't afford the tickets."

We ran through a few online quizzes on grammar, from the website usingenglish.com. 

Using English Quiz on Tenses

This quiz looks at adjectives and participles, including past participles... "tiring" versus "tired".

Grammar Helper

We both finished this session with our brains in major pretzel-mode. With Yuki, his pronuniciation needs the most work. It occurred to me at this meeting, that maybe he has trouble hearing the differences in words...It sort of hit my like a bolt, and I decided to think about it and tackle it at another session. 

Yuki tried a quiche for the first time at this meeting, and we both sipped our iced coffees and talked articulation.

Yuki is a very laid-back guy; I think any frustration he has is just in that he wants to communicate so badly. The thing is, he really communicates very well. And he's got one of these shining personalities that just can't be hidden. And he's hilarious! Yuki gets humor. Everything else can be ironed out.