Past 1

For the newer students who haven't much experience in English it's usually a good thing to stick to the basic lessons, especially for pink only students. One of the newest additions to Smith's School of English Kyobashi was one such student. So, knowing her level, I chose to do Basic 1 as her item.

We had to spend the first few minutes on her previous one point because she'd never reviewed one before and had totally forgotten it. After that was okay, we moved onto the one point.

Seeing as how her vocabulary is very low, we spent a great deal of time going over the new verbs that she was not familiar with. She reverted to Japanese quite often so I slowly built up her confidence until she felt better about trying to speak in English instead. Once she had all the verbs down, I double checked by going through some action pictures. She needed to identify verbs like swim, dance, and eat. Considering her level, she went through this part at a good rate. After that was done, we started to get into the simple past. Of course, this was all new to her so we frequently paused so that she could take notes. Eventually, she ended up with a nicely organized verb chart with simple and past tense. We went through the cards two more times with her answering in both tenses. From there, we had just enough time to create a few sentences in which she could practice the past tense.

The next lesson will be very useful in reviewing the past and present tense to reinforce her memory.