Richard -- Tutoring #11

For our last week together, I started the first half of our last week discussing the future, which is to say the lesson focused on the future tense.

I had prepared a board game. In a way, it was like the board we played in our TEFL class that allowed us to talk about a specific thing for 1 minute.

Only I didn't give Kyung a time limit.

Anyway, there are basically 4 ways in which we English speakers tell about the future. So I focused it on these 4 common expressions:

1. Will

2. Going to

3. Plan to

4. Intend to

This lesson was going to be a speaking lesson about the future obviously. Kyung went first and his game piece would land on a square labeled "brush my teeth" for example.

Here, Kyung had to use any of the 4 common expressions and a time, i.e. tonight, to complete his turn.

So this is what he had to say: "Tonight, I intend to brush my teeth!"

Kyung is quite the quite the natural. I feel he learns more when he speaks, so I would ask him follow up questions.

"Where will you brush your teeth?"

"Are you going to use a toothbrush?"

We kept our focus on the future tense, so any time Kyung said something in the present tense, I would tell him to put what he said in the future tense. He did! He only did this present tense thing one time. The rest of the time he stuck with the future tense.

Kyung said he liked the lesson because it made him talk a lot. His enunciation has vastly improved, I must say! I'm so thrilled that he is learning! :)