Marco was the only one who could come today. One tutee’s child was sick and the
other one was on his way to Miami to watch a soccer match between his own
country and another country in South America. Today we worked on pronunciation. I explained to him that for words that have 2 syllables, we generally
place the accent on the 1st syllable if it were a noun, and place the accent on
the 2nd syllable if it were a verb. We went over a list of the words. Then, we worked on a list of words that are both noun and
verb with the same spelling. He
learned to place the accent on the 1st syllable for a noun and to place the
accent on the 2nd syllable for a verb, as in “a present” and “to
present”.
We read an article about the City of Charleston, South
Carolina. Marco would do fine if
he only needed to read silently, because the article I chose was appropriate
for his level. However, he was to
read out loud for pronunciation and intonation. He almost read it word by word, so I encouraged him to read
in phrases. We went on some
websites that provide ESL students the materials to improve reading and
listening. I encouraged him to
practice at least several times a day on that website. We practiced for about 10 minutes with the
material on the website during our session.
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