On Saturday I drove to Mohammad's to practice English with him. We did a lesson on present continuous, which is apparently the newfangled terminology for present progressive. Back in my day we called it present progressive. I used a lesson from Streamline and did drills with him.
The challenge is to get him to include everything in the sentence and stay in the right tense, so that's what the drill section of the lesson taught. After getting him to say "she is watching tv" and "he is reading a book", we then went on to more advanced questions. (Claude: She is reading a book. Mohammad: What book is she reading?, etc.)
After lunch I helped his wife, Bushrat, draft a letter she wanted to write. His wife has more experience with English and can explain some of the more complicated terms for him (I can pantomime riding an elevator to explain an elevator, but it's hard to pantomime an adjective.)
I have plenty of Teaching Partner time but it's been hard scheduling time for my Conversation Partner hours.
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