7Oct/085
English Lesson 6
This is the 6th post in a series where I’m documenting how I’m teaching English to my student. Her first language is Japanese.
One thing that Aika has been messing up lately is numbers. She's been getting 'thirteen' and 'thirty' mixed up, 'fourteen' and 'forty', 'fifteen' and 'fifty' (etc) mixed up.
It's not hard to do for beginners too. A lot of the time we leave off the 'n' at the end of the 'teen' numbers and let the stress of the different words convey meaning.
So my assignment for this week is to get her saying her numbers right.
October 7th, 2008 - 21:00
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!!!
Make it fun. Do some kind of flashcard drill game and increase the speed as she starts catching on. Throw in some big numbers too.
Think its a good idea?
October 8th, 2008 - 02:12
i’m confused. you said she’s getting them mixed up.
but it seems like pronunciation is the only problem.
if you know what one word means, how it’s spelled and how it’s pronounced, what’s the problem there? i’m sure this could be solved in under 30 minutes (shouldn’t take a week). what am i missing?
October 8th, 2008 - 09:03
Good idea Cody.
James, yes pronounciation is the problem. Let’s hope that it takes less than 30 minutes. I’m sure if I sat down with her and did lots of repetition she’d get it in that time, but this isn’t a real ‘student’ that I have lessons with, but my girlfriend.
I had planned to just mention the difference in pronounciation between ‘sixteen’ and ‘sixty’ if it came up, but I think that I’m going to do the flashcard thing that cody suggested.
October 9th, 2008 - 06:13
podcast or vlog please ! – haha (she’d probably be too embarrassed right?)
October 9th, 2008 - 13:15
She probably would be, but I’ll try!