Sunday was tutoring time with Jen since she was busy with the Chinese New Year's preparations. She was visiting her family in Jiangxi, "a land of fish and rice". Later she will send me pictures of what she did. I will share them later.
Last week she came across certain questions that she did not understand. It was great because it dealt with pronouns and I had already a lesson plan which dealt with them. Jen asked, "When should use the pronouns?" Unlike English, Chinese has simple and less pronouns. I gave her a worksheet to look through it and see what she could understand from it. Then I asked her to give me the right pronouns to the different sentences I would give her.
What did Jen eat for breakfast? - ANSWER - What did SHE eat for breakfast?
Who are Peter and Michael? - ANSWER - Who are THEY?
Jerry and I will go to the movies. - ANSWER - WE will go to the movies. ....and so on.
It was a great lesson and she is now using them on our conversations. It makes it a lot easier to communicate now, too.
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Yes, I know. It is great how all the lessons somehow work perfectly with what students need.
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