my experience in tutoring two of students: part two

1.       First meeting

In the first meeting, the lesson occur around thirty minutes in the cafeteria, as the tutor told before the tutor choose the cafeteria to makes the students feel easy and freely to shared their problem. The tutor started the lesson with introducing self and and talked about how their life, their problem, school, etc. Then, the teacher taught them about the simple past, the meaning,  how to used the simple past in communication through the conversation between the tutor and the students. In the end of meeting the tutor gave the students some exercise through the conversation also. The students should answered the questions in the card and the tutor will continue the question by asking them orally.

2.     Second meeting

In the second meeting, the duration of the lesson longer than before, it was around one hour. the tutor started the lesson as the first meeting by asking some questions about their conditions, their feelings and also the question related to the simple past such as, what did you do last night? and something like that. In other hand, to make the students more interesting, the tutor also showed pronounciation of some word to the students. The students was very interesting because the pronounciation that they learned before of the word is different, in the meeting they know how to pronounce the word correctly and to make them sure whether the pronounce that given by the tutor correct or not, the tutor prove that through dictionary. After that, the tutor street to the point in introducing the simple perfect tense: when the simple perfect will be used, what the differences between the simple past and simple perfect tense. Then, the students practice the using of simple perfect orally in conversation with the tutor and friend also. 

3.      Third meeting

In the last meeting the lesson occurred around thirty minutes,  as usual the tutor started the lesson through asking some questions through conversation and fixed they pronounciation of some word. In this meeting, the lesson was done through the game that created by the tutor, the game focus on how to differentiate between both of the tenses and also about simple question. In the game consist of board game, pencil, and some cards. The tutor divided them into two groups and each of them should choose the piece of board game to be their home. Then, the teacher used the pencil and swing it in the middle of board game and the home that pointed by the pencil will answer the questions in the card.

This game really fun and makes the students really interesting and they can practice about the simple past and perfect tense unconsciously. This game also make them feel better when learning about the grammar so that the students can feel comfortable and do not afraid when lesson is happened.

Thus, in the end of the lesson the tutor conclude that the tutoring was successfully improve the students’ understanding about the simple past and simple perfect. The students can understand what is the differentiation between the simple past and simple perfect through the quantum teaching leaning method and board game media and can apply this tenses in the daily conversation.

my experience in tutoring two of students: part one

Tutoring about How to Differentiate Simple Past and Simple perfect Tenses During Three Meetings

The tutoring was conducted at students in third year of senior high school, they are AF and PJ who 17^th years old (male and female). Based on tutor’s interview they have a problem in differentiating  between simple past tense and simple perfect tense in communication context, they want the tutor showed them how to use the tenses when they communicate with other person effectively. Thus, the students asked the tutor to help them to solve the problem.

The tutoring was occured in cafeteria and tutor’s house during three meetings. One meeting in cafeteria and two meetings in tutor’s house. Why it happened in cafeteria first? Because the tutor wants make the students comfortable in first meeting with shared their lamentation. They can freely mentioned their problem in understanding the tenses in that meeting. Then, the second and third meeting the tutoring was conducted in tutor’s house, the students came to the house at night and learned together.

The tutor used the quantum teaching learning method in teaching and learning the tenses. The tutor wants the students close with her before the lesson occurred. Before the tutor teach them about the simple past and simple perfect the tutor indicate their point problem in differentiating between both of the tenses through asking them some questions to make them close with her. Meanwhile, about the media, the tutor used a grammar book, cards, and board game to help the lesson happen successfully.

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