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What sort of things do you cover with your students?

Usually we cover both subject knowledge and exam technique, although that can change depending on each individual student. Then we go through diagrams, and they ask questions, and we go from there.

Answered by Oliver B

Studies Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff

How is MyTutor different from school?

Lots of students say that the classes are too big in school, or that they don't have time to ask teachers after lessons. In my tutorials, we take time to explore things in a little in a bit more detail.

Answered by Sophie V

Studies Psychology at Bristol

What happens in a typical tutorial?

I always look up the board my students are taking so the lessons are really relevant. Then we go through past papers or set texts, whatever the student finds helpful.

Answered by Alice T

Studies English at Oxford

How do you explain tricky concepts in your tutorials?

I use the shared whiteboard. We make diagrams together and label them, and often the student prints it off because they know it's right and they completely understand it.

Answered by Natasha G

Studies Geology at Durham

Do you have any success stories?

After tutoring one girl went and told all her friends the new explanation I gave her. And she was so excited about what she wrote in the exam she emailed me immediately afterwards.

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Studies Philosophy at Exeter

Can you help with last-minute revision?

There was one girl who had her exam on Monday. She wanted tuition on Friday, Saturday and Sunday beforehand. It was very intense, but she said the exam went well.

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Studies Law at Warwick

How do you know which case to use after German prepositions?

There are three possible cases that follow prepositions: accusative, dative or genitive. The following prepositions are followed by the accusative case: bis,durch, fuer, gegen, ohne, um Example- Ich will ohne dich nicht zum Party gehen. The following prepositons are followed by the dative: aus, ausser, bei gegenueber, mit, nach ,seit, von, zu Example- Er ging jeden Tag zu der (zur) Schule. The following prepositons are followed by the gentivie case: anstatt, trotz, waehrend, wegen Example- Trotz des schlechten Wetters ging er draussen. The following verbs take both accusative and dative: an, auf, hinter, in, neben, ueber, unter, vor, zwischen -The prepositions are followed by the accusative case if movement is involved. Example- Er legte den Stift auf den Tisch. -Yet when the phrase does not involve movement the prepositions are followed by the dative case: Example- Der Stift lag auf dem Tisch.

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Studies German and Italian at Oxford, Oriel College

I don't understand when to use reported speech. Can you explain it?

Reported speech or indirect speech is sometimes used in German to convey what someone else has said. It is not commonly used in spoken language, but instead mainly in journalism, in order to distance the author from a quote that they have included in their article. This can be a useful way of casting doubt on the words of another or making it very clear to the reader that the author may be of another opinion. You should only use reported speech in formal written language where you are quoting someone else. If you do not use it, the reader will think that what you have written are your own words.

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Studies LLB (Hons) Law and German at Edinburgh

Can you explain the difference between duerfen and muessen in the positive and negative?

In order to understand which of these two is most appropriate for what you are trying to say, you should think about their literal translations. Duerfen is "to be allowed to", expressing permission, and muessen is more "to need to" expressing "must". So, if you were to say "Ich muss das Abendessen kochen" it incinuates that the action must be done, and "Ich darf das Abendessen kochen" would show that you have been give the permission to do the cooking. However it is worth being wary about using these two in the negative, as while we in English say "I must not cook dinner", one would use duerfen and not muessen when translating this into German, as the sentence expresses a lack of permission, so "Ich darf das Abendessen nicht kochen". "Ich muss das Abendessen nicht kochen" instead would mean "I do not need to cook dinner", incinuating that you have the permission but not the need.

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Studies German and History with a year abroad at Kings, London

When and how do I use the passive voice in German?

The passive is used when the speaker/writer wants to put emphasis on the action and object of the sentence rather than the subject doing the action. For example in English the active sentence "He is building the house"would become "The house is being built (by him)" in the passive. In order to form the passive in German, you use the verb "werden" and a past participle. The conjugation of werden expresses the tense of the clause and the past participle remains unchanged. In the present tense werden is conjugated as follows: ich werde, du wirst, er wird, sie wird, wir werden, ihr werdet, Sie/sie werden. Therefore "The house is being built by him" would be "Das Haus wird von ihm gebaut". Here's a quick breakdown of werden+passive in its different tenses, using this example. (the components of the conjugated werden are underlined) present- Das Haus wird von ihm gebaut. imperfect- Das Haus wurde von ihm gebaut. perfect- Das Haus ist von ihm gebaut worden. pluperfect- Das Haus war von ihm gebaut worden. future- Das Haus wird von ihm gebaut werden.

Answered by Eleanor E.

Studies German and History with a year abroad at Kings, London

Why do some verbs take 'sein' in the past tense?

The verbs that take sein in the past tense are usually (there are some exceptions) verbs that indicate a change of state or movement. For example, fahren is referring to movement, so you'd say ich bin gefahren. So when you have to conjugate verbs into the perfect tense, ask yourself whether the verb indicates a change of state or not.

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Studies German and Portuguese at Bristol

How do you know which version of the word 'the' to use?

The word for 'the' which you use depends on the gender of the noun that follows it, and also what the noun is doing in a sentence. In the sentence 'The dog bites the cat', the dog is doing the action, which makes it the subject of the sentence, whilst the cat is having the thing done to it, making it the object of the sentence. The dog, which is the do-er of the action, will be in the nominative case in German. So it is 'der Hund', whilst the cat, the object of the sentence, will take the accusative case, making it 'die Katze'. These are the two most important cases in German, so being able to identify who is doing the action and who is having it done to them are the most important parts when you're working out what articles to use in a sentence. The other two forms an article (the word 'the') can take are the dative and the genetive. The dative is used to show that something is being done on behalf of another. So in the sentence 'I buy the book for the child', 'the child' takes the dative case, because that is who the action is being done for. This makes the neuter noun 'das Kind' into 'dem Kind'. Finally the genetive case, which is actually poorly understood by many native German speakers, indicates belonging. So if 'I buy the book for the child of the teacher', the 'teacher' is in the genetive case, because that is who the child belongs to. In the genetive you need to add the letter 's' to the end of the noun as well as change the article, so in this example, the noun 'der Lehrer' becomes 'des Lehrers'. (For this sample answer I would supply the student with a table of definite articles divided by case and gender)

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Studies Law with German Law at Warwick

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