Amberly TS #13

Zhou and I met at Greenwise on July 23 for two hours from 3:30-5:30pm. 

For the second hour Zhou and I worked on his pronunciation. I also decided to teach a more culture based lesson. I had done prior research on how to help Chinese native speakers to pronounce their R's/L's more clearly. I showed him a video and he read off tongue twisters after I repeated it to him. We did a minimal pairs exercise again. I had a list of r/l sound words and asked him to say them out loud using the knowledge he gained. I coupled the video with exercises I found on the internet. The lesson on pronunciation showed some improvement in the clarity of his speech. I ended the lesson by teaching him obscene language. I asked him if he knew anything about certain words regarding race and ethnicity. He shared that he already was informed on the nature of slurs in America so I only taught him curse words that were used regularly. I also taught him that some curse words had a religious origin and to avoid using it in certain contexts and among certain individuals.