Ariel and Ivy weren’t able to meet
up with me during this particular week. They went on a CIES trip to Wakulla
Springs. However, Takuya was available, so once again we sat at a little table
and drank coffee at Starbucks. The week before we had concentrated on word
intonation, so I thought we could review the subject a bit before we moved on.
I brought out a group of sentences
with words underlined, and we repeated last week’s activity. When he was
answering my questions without fault, I gave him a single sentence without
anything underlined.
“Ok, now, how would you say this
sentence if you wanted to express that someone else bought the pizza?” I asked
him. He said the sentence again, and flawlessly put stress on the correct word.
I asked him another question. He answered correctly, again. After completing
the whole series of this sentence without getting anything wrong, I told him I was
impressed.
“Have you worked on this before? In
class, perhaps?” I asked. He said he hadn’t, only with me. It felt satisfactory
to see that a tutee of mine was able pick up an entire subject of English
solely from my teaching. And only in two tutoring sessions! I was so proud of
Takuya.
Since he had gotten the hang
of intonation, I moved onto minimal pairs for the duration of our session. He
had seen these before of course, so it acted as a refresher in pronunciation.
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