Marina TP3

Last Wednesday I met with Dongsoek for a tutoring lesson. Jia could not make it, she said she had an emergency so during that time Dongsoek and I went over articles and prepositions.

I taught him how to use both definite and indefinite articles, and during this lesson reinforced his use of them by asking him questions and asking for examples of when he would use "a" and "the". He seemed to remember it so we moved on to prepositions because he said he got a few of them wrong on his last quiz and did not understand why they were wrong.

At first, I wasn't sure how to explain to him when to use "at" or "in" but I looked it up on the computer and we both figured out how to make him understand it.

Towards the end of the lesson, he began to understand the difference. We then went over his quiz and had him explain to me why that specific preposition had to be used.

Along with that, I encountered a cultural problem. One of the examples on his quiz used the word "Easter". Dongsoek thought it was a place, but I had to explain it to him that it was a religious holiday and give him a brief background on it. So I thought it was interesting how an unknown capitalized word signifying a holiday can be culturally misinterpreted for a physical place.