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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

"Das Fernsehen zerstört das Familienleben." Erklären sie Ihre Meinung zu dieser Aussage

Während das Familienleben immer mehr von der Technologie wie z.b. Fernsehen, Tablets beeinflusst wird, wirkt es sich ziemlich positiv auf unser Alltagsleben. Es lässt sich erkennen, dass wir mit Netflix jedes Film auf unser Fernsehen angucken könnten. Dies ist durch einfach nur eine Taste der Fernbedienung möglich. In diesem Hinsicht verbessert sich das Fernsehen unser Familienleben, besonders an einem Samstagabend. Andererseits ist zu sagen, dass Familien neigen heutzutage dazu, die Stunden über nicht echt miteinander zu sprechen. Wegen der feige Wirkungen des Fernsehens sehen Familienmitglieder lieber fern. Man kann sagen, dass dieses Ereignis zum verschlechterten und ungesunden Familienleben führte.

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Studies German at Edinburgh

How do you know which case to use for dual case prepositions

Most prepositions are always followed by the same case. For example: mit (with)- is always followed by the dative case für (for)- is always followed by the accusative case But there are 9 prepositions which can take one of two cases (the dative or the accusative), depending on the context of the sentence. These 9 are: hinter, auf, in, vor, zwischen, neben, unter, an, über. In order to decide which case you need to use, you need to look at the overall context of the sentence and decide if there is sufficient movement or not. If there is sufficient movement you will need to use the accusative case, but if there is no or little movement then you should use the dative. For example: 1) Die Katze springt auf DEN Stuhl (the cat jumps onto the table)- here der (den) is in the accusative case because the cat is moving from one place to another. 2) Die Katze sitzt auf dem Stuhl (the cat is sitting on the table)- here der (dem) is in the dative case because the cat is remaining in one place. so the key thing to remember when deciding which case to use is: MOVEMENT= ACCUSATIVE NO MOVEMENT= DATIVE

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Studies Human geography at Cardiff

What are the cases in German?

The cases help us to identify the noun's role in the sentence and make the article of the noun change depending on the case, gender and number. Nominative is the subject of the sentence (who's doing the action), the accusative is the object (the noun the action directly involves), the dative is the indirect object (for example, to whom the action is being done to) and the genitive, which is the least used case, indicates a possessive. As an example, 'Der Junge gibt dem Pferd des Mannes einen Apfel' - The boy gives the man's horse an apple. The boy is doing the giving so is in the nominative, the apple is being given so is in the accusative, the horse is receiving the apple so is in the dative and it belongs to the man so the man is in the genitive.

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Studies German & Italian at Oxford, The Queen's College

Translate into German: In the poorest countries, they need clean drinking water to survive.

In den ärmsten Ländern brauchen sie sauberes Trinkwasser, um zu überleben.

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Studies Modern Languages and Cultures (with Year Abroad) - French and German at Durham

How do conjunctions like 'weil' and 'obwohl' affect the word order?

Words such as 'weil' and 'obwohl' are known as 'subordinating conjunctions' - these types of conjunctions affect the word order in German. They introduce a clause which cannot stand on its own, but is dependent on the main clause. For example, in English, 'I play football because it's fun.', the main clause is 'I play football', while the subordinate clause is 'because it's fun.'. In German, when 'weil' appears, the conjugated verb must be sent to the end of the clause. For example, the translation of the above sentence would be 'Ich spiele Fußball, weil es Spaß macht.', rather than '*ich spiele Fußball, weil es macht Spaß'. It's also important to make sure you write a comma before the subordinating conjunction as this clearly indicates the clause structure of the sentence. The same rule applies for other subordinate conjunctions such as 'obwohl' which means 'although': 'Ich spiele Fußball, obwohl es anstrengend ist.' In the above examples, the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause comes second. It should be noted that it's perfectly acceptable in German for this order to be reversed - the subordinate clause can come before the main clause: 'Weil es Spaß macht, spiele ich Fußball' and 'Obwohl es anstrengend ist, spiele ich Fußball.' As seen in the above example, when the subordinate clause comes before the main clause, the conjugated verb of the following main clause must be inverted, that is to say come before the subject. A handy way of remembering this, is that it forms what I like to call a 'verb-comma-verb sandwich'.

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Answered by John K.

Studies German and Linguistics at Oxford, St Hilda's College

What are the nominative, accusative and dative cases and when should I use them?

Using the cases correctly is vital, as different cases will change which word you use for 'the' (there are 12 words for 'the' in German!), and will also have an impact on the endings of adjectives and indefinite articles. It's also quite confusing for beginners as this grammar concept doesn't really exist in English. Nominative- subject of a sentence, the thing doing an action or being described eg. ich, du, sie, es. Example sentence: Er ist meinen Bruder Accusative- direct object, also used after FUDGEBOW prepositions, eg. ihn, ihr example sentence: Ich mag ihn nicht. Dative- indirect object, indirect object being the person or thing that an action is meant to benefit. Also used after aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu, hinter, vor and an. Example sentence: Der Lehrer gibt einer Schülerin ein Beispiel

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Studies German and Politics at Edinburgh

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