Date/Time: May 31, 2017; 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Location: Campus Circle study rooms
Topic: Pronunciation, error log
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Further explained error log, worked with the pronunciation of words that have similar sounds.
Saeed and I met at the campus circle study rooms and when I sat down he handed me a letter from Alamo, the company he is renting his car from. He asked me to explain what the letter meant and I helped him understand and then helped figure out how to sort out the issue. We then chatted about his grammar quiz and about how Ramadan was going for him, he has been very tired due to the fasting but otherwise all is well. We then discussed a speaking test that he has tomorrow and how he wanted to practice the pronunciations of some of the material that would be covered on the test. I had him read the words aloud and would correct him and have him repeat words that he had trouble with after me. I also had him to focus on particular sounds within the words that he needed to change and gave examples of other words where the same sounds were made to give him some extra practice. Words like slip and sleep, heat and hit, and taste and test were all on this list and we worked on trying to hear the differences in words, and create the correct sounds to make those differences known to those we are talking to. I also talked about context being very important when differentiating words like with "to live or die" and "live music at the bar" on differentiating how to speak them aloud. This was a fun session because I felt as though I could confidently assist him in the pronunciation of these words, I felt more at ease with the material than usual which was really nice.
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