Stephen Tutoring 3

Hyun Sung and I met last Wednesday last week and we went over some specific topics that he has been struggling with.  First we met outside the library, but he had left his FSU card behind so we practiced outside.  We went over using the past, and present perfect tenses.  He has especially been struggling with these tenses, many times he will say "I has a question", or "you has a question" so I thought it would be really good to work on and improve those skills.  However, when we did the exercises that I had found on the internet, I found that the most difficult part for him was not remembering whether to say has or had, or have or has, but it was the conjugating of the verbs that gave him the most trouble (and sometimes even me).  The really tricky part of the exercise was when to say "I had been waiting" or "I had waited". Mmmm.... the Past Perfect Continuous Tense anyone?  I feel like I did a better job of confusing him than making him feel more comfortable with the tense, because I even messed up some of the exercises myself.  I don't feel like I'm making much of a difference with my lessons. :(  When I answer his questions about vocab, and grammar, I feel like I'm helping, but when I actually make a lesson it feels like I'm being reduntant.  Maybe that's just a part of teaching... being repetitive to the point of slightly annoying students, but making them better because that's how you really learn..... to be continued...