Fadia Shuaib TS#5 Amelia M.

Date/Time: 4/2/2026, 4PM 

Location: Zoom

Topic/Skill:  Grammar; Present perfect continuous, future continuous tense, past perfect tense, noun clauses

Feedback provided to the tutee: 

Present perfect continuous tense

have/has + been + -ing ; used for ongoing or incomplete action.

I have been saying no for the past few days.

He has been writing a letter to the dean.

She has been singing.

He has been eating all my food.


Future continuous tense

will + be + -ing ; used for something you plan to do in the future.

I will be running.

I will be waiting.

He will be painting.


Past perfect tense

had + -ed ; Used to clarify what happened first in two different events/clarifies what happened in the past.

When the timer went off, she had already left.

I cooked, but my roommate had ordered dinner.

I closed the gate, but my dog had already escaped.

He got to the store, but the store had already closed.

When he left, she had still been there.




Noun clauses



Fadia:

She can't play games when she young.


She couldn't play games when she was young. 


Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Fadia indicated she was struggling/worried about an upcoming grammar test, so our tutoring session focused on the content she would see that she was worried about. I focused on describing the format of these tenses and giving examples, and afterwards gave her space to craft her own sentences. I would then correct the sentences. This was a more targeted tutoring session that I feel was very helpful to her, as she struggles most with tenses. Going forward, I will orient her tutoring around what she has struggled with in grammar classes to reinforce what she is learning. 


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