Julia TP #3

Last Sunday, Divino and I went over “if-clauses”. He really likes to write essays, and I provide him with all kinds of topics. However, he does not always have the time to write a draft from one meeting to the next, let alone to finish a story, because he works a lot (which is usually a good thing, of course, because he needs the money). Therefore, I always have little grammar lessons prepared, actually based on mistakes we picked out of his essay creations from past sessions. Again, he really likes to write and to read but sometimes it is very difficult for him; he is a construction worker and occasionally he has to travel for the job. On these trips, when he shares a mobile home with the other guys, he does not really dare to get his book or laptop out of his bag to read or write, while his buddies play video games or watch TV. He told me, that, because of his English studies and the paying attention to grammar, he tends to correct his buddies’ or co-workers (oral) English, things they say “incorrectly”. “But I don’t,” he says laughing, “of course not. I am already quite a nerd among them!”