Leslie TS #5


Leslie TS #5 CIES Building 5/21/18 4-5 pm

Student began by talking about the first episode of “The History of China” on PBS.  I had sent him the link and assigned it for homework. He said it was very good and generally easy to understand the Englishman who is the narrator (and also fluent in Chinese). He asked me about vocabulary words from a reading text he had done in class. We discussed many aspects of the words. This led to some of the letter sounds he has difficulty with. He cannot distinguish the vowel sounds of “bad” and “bed.” He said he can understand what word is meant from the context. But he cannot hear the difference, so he cannot learn it to speak it. We reviewed the short sounds of vowels. He worked on pronunciation of words to practice these sounds. He listened to me, and we listened to sound files on his laptop computer. He was doing much better by slowing down, enunciating, and practicing. Another difficulty is pronunciation of v and w. We practiced speaking words with those sounds.

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