Feedback — Dariia

Answers instantly when a topic is fresh — recency beats volume for her.

Used five modal phrases correctly and unprompted in the guess-the-profession game (bound to, it's given that, highly unlikely that, supposed to, it's my responsibility to). Andriana: "nice usage of all the phrases, I enjoyed this."

Volunteered first on both reading texts on 20 Aug and got non-verbal cues and the whole energy-cost answer out unaided; also produced crate and a big plus cold.

8 Oct: strong seller in the word game — explained aggravate with her own example and aptitude (an aptitude for learning languages), guessed a wet blanket from one hint and used it in a sentence straight away, and summarised the listening first.

1 · Calques from Ukrainian when the word won't come

"a lot of water here" for «багато води» → should be padded / fluff / long-winded and vague. Also said «конкретне» outright when specific wouldn't surface.

Fix: Describe the thing in English instead of translating the Ukrainian idiom — same fix as Maksym's invented collocations.

2 · Spelling in written exercises

standarts → standards · individually → individuality · commonpalce → commonplace · assesment → assessment.

Fix: Proofread written work once for spelling specifically, separately from checking content.

3 · employee vs employer

Mixed them up on 13 Aug. 8 Oct: self-corrected employers → employees mid-sentence — progress.

Fix: Andriana's hook: driver, builder, teacher, employer — the -er is the person doing it.

4 · Tense slips in narrative

"the epidemic start in the middle of my 11th grade" → the pandemic started. Both the word (epidemic vs pandemic) and the tense.

Fix: Keep verb tense consistent across a whole turn, not just a whole sentence — flagged in Andriana's 06 Aug feedback too.

5 · Subject–verb agreement in relative clauses

"a person who are finding your thing that you forgot somewhere" → someone who finds things you've left behind. 8 Oct, three times in one lesson: "someone who… have done it before" · "a party that have to highlight" · "this question have to take much longer". Also "we was wondering".

Fix: Match the verb to the relative pronoun's antecedent, not to the nearest noun. A singular subject (a party, this question, someone who) takes has.

6 · Relies on recency instead of revising

Didn't revise before the 06 Aug quiz — "because I don't remember anything." Missed complete fallacy and fertile. Her real strength is answering instantly when a topic is fresh — "I just have a fresh memory about this topic" — but that only covers what was taught recently.

Fix: Revise the previous two units for five minutes before class, the same habit that works for Maksym — recency is a strength, not a substitute for review.

7 · Double comparatives

"much more harder to chat online" · "it's much more easier to do" — twice in one lesson, 20 Aug.

Fix: Either more or -er, never both. The intensifier is much / far / way / a lot, and it attaches straight to the -er form.

1. Use conditional forms in daily conversation, not just in the grammar exercise.
2. Work on W and TH sounds specifically — flagged directly by Andriana.
3. Keep verb tense consistent across a whole turn when telling a story.
4. Use new vocabulary functionally in a sentence you build, rather than memorising the definition.
5. Revise the previous two units for five minutes before every quiz — recency helps but doesn't replace it.
6. Proofread written homework once just for spelling before submitting it.