Hi conversation Groups,
First, please bring the Project Organizer, as we will talk about that. Click here: (using control /click) or last post.
Continuing with themes connected with the Pronunciation classes, the Thursday group commented that the sentences Lucy said to improve her pronunciation sounded like "tongue twisters" (trabalenguas) and I said I would post a few for fun. A few made me laugh just reading them! CLICK HERE:
Finally, talking about the difference between the verbs LEAVE and LIVE, I commented that there is an old Beatles' song that is very good for talking about the advantages and disadvantages of living with one's parents and the difference between generations.
I will bring in the song and we will do this exercise (print if possible)
CLICK HERE:
If you'd like to listen at home first, here's the link for the youtube with subtitles in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rqj43vjU-A
OR, MORE CHALLENGING, WITHOUT SUBTITLES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lG3nXyI41M
Conv Tue/Thu
ResponderEliminarLast Thursday we finished with vocabulary and acronyms about the video on Facebook. We have continued working in pronunciation remining the pronunciation of the vowels and trying to obtain some rules for it; after that we watch the funny video of Lucy and Riccardo and we agree with him that it's very difficult to have a good pronunciation when there are more exceptions than good cases in the rules!
We have been talking among us about what we thought on the problems of pronunciation, the pros and cons of having one parent that speak a different language, the funny languages that sometimes small kids invent mixing two idioms, etc. Then we answered questions about the video and the curious case of words that are written with the same letters but the pronunciation is different (BOUGH, THROUGH, ROUGH and COUGH).