During this lesson, Andre and I met in the break room of CIES. After devouring some tasty treats made for the "Tea Time" event, we began with the tutoring, which revolved around articles. To prepare for it, I had printed off multiple worksheets from an ESL website.
We started by discussing the usage of articles and how well acquainted Andre was with them. I saw this as a proper gauge of his background knowledge. I knew that he was an intermediate-level student, so the papers properly corresponded with his ability.
The goal of the worksheets was to fill in the article, as the rest of the sentence was already provided. The given options were a, an, the, and no article. I was amazed by how fast Andre blazed through the work. For the intermediate worksheets, he only missed one on both.
I had planned for his correction rate to be high, so I gave him one more advanced-level paper. This is where he ran into problems; he had difficulty with the "no articles". For example, "where were you ________ last night". To remedy this, I advised him to pick the option that felt the most comfortable, and to not over-think it. This boosted his score, which he and I were quite pleased with. We practiced some more and the lesson concluded.
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