You Taught Us That
By: Michelle Markowitz ENP Intern It has been about two months since I began tutoring after school with ENP. The teacher and I review grammar with the high school students and practice reading comprehension by reading various books and stories. Sometimes the girls we work with need help with homework or a specific task. Today, the girls asked to use our time together to review for their upcoming English test. Among the things they asked to review were the present perfect tense, gerunds, and a story from their workbook. I have to admit that I was a little disappointed when the girls asked to review gerunds, because I had personally taught them gerunds only a few weeks ago, and they seemed like they understood. We reviewed the present perfect, which we had talked about in December when I first began working with the girls, and we read the story from their book together. As always, the girls impressed me with their knowledge of and familia...