Nic Reagan TS #11

     Today at CIES, Samuel from Colombia and I met for this week's tutoring session from 3-4 pm. He was having trouble with relative pronouns (where, when, which, that, who, whose), so this was our sole focus in the session. I gave example sentences with blanks and he had to fill in the correct relative pronoun. He also had to create his own sentences using the pronouns. Samuel had no problem with relative pronouns of time and place, but the difference between who and whose was difficult for him. The last portion of our tutoring was focused on who/whose only. He had trouble both with distinguishing the possessive form (whose) and trouble confusing the contraction (who's) with the possessive relative pronoun. By the end of the session, I really felt Samuel was understanding when to use the possessive and when to use the contraction. Hopefully this helped him in his journey to becoming a better English speaker!