March 30
This session was notably better than the last, and I feel that we were able to get in a lot of meaningful grammar practice and speech production. Kyoungbo had a talk with Andy after our difficulties last week and I came prepared with chocolate for a motivational reward and with several grammar games loaded onto my laptop. Andy frequently makes conjugation errors when using simple past tense to talk about his experiences, so we focused on games that facilitate its use. The games would present a sentence with a missing verb and Andy had to choose the correct multiple-choice answer to fill in the blank with the proper simple past tense verb. Between games we had conversation practice and focused on producing speech using the simple past tense and as long as Andy was attentive and participated, I gave him a piece of chocolate as I had promised him earlier. It's kind of amazing to me how much motivation can be yielded from game-ifying grammar lessons, rewards, and parental intervention.
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