When I tutored Cui and Libo I used a worksheet I had from teaching English in Peru. We worked with the immigration office and I found the worksheet very useful. It was a list of the 25 most common verbs in English. It proved very useful. First I wrote all of the verbs on the board and asked them which ones they recognized. I found that although they could recognize the words they didn't necessarily know how to use it correctly in a complete sentence. This was especially true for Cui. They both knew what auxilary verbs were (be, have, and do). I had a difficult time explaining "get." I never really think about it. I told them it indicates completing and obtaining something in the future. I'm not sure I completely covered it and I'm not sure if I handled the situation in the best way. I tried to use lots of examples but the examples left me more unsure of myself. I settled on telling them I would look it up. Libo had a bit of a hard time with the difference between "do" and
"make." I explained that making is more of the process of doing if you are creating something. For example you make a cake, but you do laundry. The laundry is not being created into something new.
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