I met up with Ivy and
Ariel again, this time at Atomic Coffee. They were very excited to be there,
having heard so much about the little coffee house. By the time I had arrived
they had already ordered a couple of the very original breakfast sandwiches
Atomic offers, and were waiting anxiously to try them. They could barely
concentrate until they had scarfed down the food.
After they had
finished eating, we finally began work on tongue twisters. This time I had
brought a whole list of twisters along. They included traditional ones such as
“ Sally sold seashells by the seashore,” as well as some less known, such as,
“The two- twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.”
The latter in
particular was a bit difficult for Ariel and Ivy. Mixing the “th-,” sound with
the hard “t-,” was almost like a brainteaser and tongue twister all wrapped
into one. However, after I showed them how to position their tongues, and
described what the two sounds should feel like, they got it! They also didn’t
understand what the sentence meant, so we had a good time picking it apart and
putting the sentence back together again after they figured out the words.
I’ve realized
that I really enjoy allowing my students to figure out unknown words and
sentences through context clues. They are given a great feeling of
accomplishment and a practical way to figure out unknowns in the English
language without jumping to their dictionaries.
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