March 7, 2017 - 5:00-6:00 PM
After our meal at Burrito Boarder, Naty and I went through two fill-in-the-blank worksheets: one for prepositions used for time (ex. on Sunday, at 2:00, in three weeks) and the other for prepositions used with verbs (ex. Listen to, borrow from). Naty told me to choose what we would go over during the session, and I figured that since in French prepositions are used often in different ways than in English [or sometimes not used at all], she would have the same difficulty with English prepositions as I do with French ones. To help her out, I printed a chart I found online that explains how to use certain prepositions when talking about time, and I printed side-by-side comparisons of English verbs and French verbs using prepositions. She asked questions about the difference in meaning of phrases like "take out," "take away," "take down," and "take on." I explained to her that the preposition and the context can really change the message - like how the meaning of "take out" changes in sentences such as "Let's get take out" and "Did you take out the trash?"
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