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* We reviewed last week's lessons, especially to reminder students about how English is a mixture of different languages, which is why it has so many synonyms (similar meaning), homophones (sound the same, spelled differently) | * We reviewed last week's lessons, especially to reminder students about how English is a mixture of different languages, which is why it has so many synonyms (similar meaning), homophones (sound the same, spelled differently) | ||
** a student mentioned that English has rules but many exceptions -- exactly!! | ** a student mentioned that English has rules but many exceptions -- exactly!! | ||
* | * students were reminded that learning a language goes from ''the ear >> to the mouth >> to the mind'' | ||
** in order to practice "hearing" and "listening" English, we read three very difficult sentences with unfamiliar words, paying attention to the sounds and not the meanings | |||
*we worked on the articles "a" "an and "the" | |||
**a = precedes a hard sound (makes a breath to say, such as "cow") | |||
**an = precedes a soft sound (makes no breath to say, such as "apple" ) | |||
*we reviewed ESL resources available to students at the Arlington Country Public Library. | |||
== Wed Oct 30 == | == Wed Oct 30 == | ||