I had a structured lesson on f-words, focusing mainly on pronunciation, speaking vocabulary. I prepped the lesson to last about one hour and we ended almost perfectly on time. I taped the lesson, so you will be able to listen in.
The first part of the lesson was reading a short 'fishy story', an f-word and and idiom, as we have collected American idioms throughout our sessions. Yonghuon read the story repeated after me several times, when the flow of the sentence was not natural or too interrupted. The many f' sounds gave him quite a challenge. The story needed with the phrase that it was a fishy story, which Yonghuong did not comprehend; he interpreted it as a story about fish. So he learned another idiom.
The next section of the lesson were vocabulary of f- words. I handed him a list of f-words. I selected words from a more advanced vocabulary such as federalism, follicle, freedom fighters etc. We also discussed words beginning with ph such as philosophy, and words ending in the f sound such as enough and rough and the word 'off'. I had Yonghuong read the word and then make a sentence with every word. That gave him good speaking and comprehension practise. That's exactly what he had asked to learn - pronunciation, speaking and comprehension. Therefore I am building all of my tutor sessions around those challenges at every meeting.
We ended the class by discussing our family and we both brought pictures to share.
It was a successful tutoring session.
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