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We opened class with the Our Father prayer | |||
* discussed "thy" the "thee" | |||
* the best explanation for Spanish speakers is that it's like using the language of Cervantes | |||
** relating it, then to the language Shakespeare used | |||
* a student recognized that there are different translations of "trespasses" in Spanish versions | |||
Thanksgiving Day exercise (worksheet here: [[ESL/ESL handouts and worksheets#Thanksgiving Day vocab & conversation practice|ESL/ESL handouts and worksheets]] | |||
* we spent most of the entire session working through the Thanksgiving vocabular and conversation exercise worksheets | |||
* we realized how amazing it is that words like "bake" and "dish" have multiple connotations that are hard to recognize | |||
** Michael note to self: that's what English-language dictionaries are good for, so get them!! | |||
* this exercise was very powerful since it related directly to a recent personal experience | |||
** ex. what do you call the sister and brother-in-law of your fiancé? | |||
*** turns out it's easier to use the possessive instead of the genitive prepositional form (of...) | |||
*** i.e., "my fiancé's sister and brother-in-law" rather than "the sister and husband/brother-in-law of my fiancé" | |||
** brings up the utility of the English possessive form (the "zz" sound for possessives is an Anglo-Saxon remnant) | |||
* we reviewed the vocabulary first, adding many new words form each person's personal experience | |||
* then we applied the vocabulary to conversational practice | |||
Pronunciation of consonants | |||
* we worked on speaking the final consonant of words, as it greatly assists listener comprehension | |||
** one way to think of this is that when reading words, our brains generally process the first and last sounds and assume those in the middle | |||
*** for ex., the word "mediation" is easily confused with "meditation" as both begin and end the same | |||
** in spoken words, it helps to avoid any confusion by enunciating the consonants, especially the final one, if any | |||
Next: Christmas vocabulary and dialog | |||
== Wed Dec 4 == | == Wed Dec 4 == | ||