Monday, March 29, 2010

Surprise Student Visit!

I was having a nice morning routine and getting into my work catch-up Saturday this past weekend when my student's head popped into the window. "Teacher, are you bus-eye?" (They tend to pronounce 'y' at the end like an 'i').
"No, I'm not busy right now." I said.
"Can I ask you question. I want to speak with you," he replied.
"Come on in."
Well, three hours later, I was wondering when the questions and practice would end. He was really concerned about pronouncing the 'b' and 'p' sound correctly. I think we went over it 10 times and each time I thought he was correctly saying it.

Well, I printed some grammar stuff for him to read and then we returned to pronunciation. I think that they have a hard time hearing the difference between our 'p' and 'b' because he really did not think he was saying it right.

One thing I did was record when I would say a word and he would repeat. Then when I played it back he could hear himself repeating after me.
The one problem was that he did not have a cell phone... at all. Which is really surprising!!! All my students have cell phones, but most of them have MP3 playing cell phones too! This was the first student that I've found who did not have a cell phone at all.
Anyway, we spent about 3 hours working on pronunciation; I feel like we made progress. Can't wait for the listening lab to be up and running!

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