TS Sanghun September 11, 2020 9am – 10 am

Sanghun started the lesson by telling me about his trip to Japan. This was the topic he chose to focus on. He spent about ten minutes telling me about his trip. I would ask him to elaborate from time to time but mainly allowed him to guide the conversation. After he finished I told him what he did well and corrected some speaking errors that he had made. Sanghun seemed to struggle with the ‘l’ and ‘r’ noises so we did some minimal pairs exercises involving these. Not only did I have him work through each pairing, but I also asked him to productively come up with sentences using each pairing in order to apply some context. When he started formulating his own sentences I noticed he seemed to have more trouble so I had him focus on doing this more. I found he had difficulty at times with conversational English and intonation issues. We are going to do some listening practice going forward and primarily focus on these issues as well as quickly joined words. 

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  1. Patrick K M LeeOctober 22, 2020 at 8:32 PM

    I wonder what it would be like teaching English to a native speaker of the Khoisan language groups, the ones that use clicks in place of some consonants. Minimal pairs anyone?

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