Class day yesterday -- 5 students. I need to check on "I" -- she has missed the past two classes. I hope she is not ill.
We continued our discussion of vowel sounds -- this week we were on long and short i. As we say the words we increase our vocabulary skills. The students were amazed at the pronunciation of the word choir. We looked at it in the dictionary and found that it is pronounced as if it starts with a kwi, instead of ch-oi. They learned what a kilt is, and that led to talking about bag pipes. We learned the word Swiss and found Switzerland on the map.
During our word discussions we touched on women's rights again -- the subject of domestic violence came up. One student told me that here, in this country, if a husband beats his wife he is arrested. In her country this is not true. Yes, some countries still haven't changed!
My students always want a rule to memorize to help with the pronunciation. I have told them that they just need to learn the words -- there would be so many rules that they would be bogged down with remembering them. I don't remember all the pronunciation rules -- do any of you? Perhaps the English/Language arts teachers, but maybe not many others.
I'm going to enjoy my holiday break from classes -- after we start back in Dec we will only have 3 more classes. We should be able to finish the vowels and then perhaps we will have a Christmas party!
It will be interesting to see how each family celebrates this holiday. How are YOU going to celebrate?
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My ESL students always wanted the "rules", too. Sometimes even my friends who were teaching Advanced Placement English classes to honors students at the high school didn't know the exact rule and had to research it for us. AND...I used to tell my students that there are usually so many exceptions to each rule, that it's silly to memorize more than the few very basic rules that hold true MOST of the time.
It is difficult to make rules when the English language changes and adapts all the time. It's a kind of growing language with one of the latest additions to the Oxford Dictionary, and New Word for the year...........
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