Will TS #3

 I met with Marina for another session this afternoon. Last time, she told me she was having trouble differentiating when to use “do” and “make”, so I printed out some examples and tips to help with that. We tried making some example sentences with using both words and that went pretty well. She also read a short section of a story that I printed out for her, and we discussed the vocabulary and idioms that were used in it. We got kind of sidetracked talking about words like “y’all”, “ain’t”, etc., but it was a fun conversation. She was also having trouble with prepositions, so we looked up some exercises for that. She was confused about when to use “through” versus “across”, so we focused on that for a while and looked up some tips. I made a little drawing of a hallway, carpet, tables, and doors, and used that to make example sentences using “through” and “across”. At first it didn’t seem to work but I think she understood a little better by the end of it. 

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