TP #7 Madison

Friday during my tutoring session with Erico we focused on his pronunciation. He told me he was having trouble pronouncing words beginning with an 's' sound and a 'th' sound. I had him say a list of words like 'sink' and 'think', 'sin' and 'thin', and 'sank' and 'thank' to practice stressing the differences. I also had him pay attention to the way he was moving his mouth and positioning his tongue. We also worked on saying words that ended with the 'th' sound. Then I had him practice saying words in the past tense with an 'ed' at the end. Sometimes when Erico pronounces words in the past tense he puts an added 'ed' sound at the end that shouldn't  be there like 'lookeded'. After we practiced his past tenses he practiced differentiating between pronouncing words starting with 't' and 'th' and 'd' and 'th'. I told him to practice all of these differences before our next tutoring session and that I'd quiz him the next time. He struggled the most between his 's' and 'th' sounds and his 't' and 'th' sounds.