Date/Time: October 20 2018, 4pm
Location: Tutee's place
Topic/Skill: Pronunciation, minimal pairs, word stress, reading comprehension
The tutee expressed how he really wanted to practice pronunciation and specifically the sounds that a native Arabic speaker seem to struggle with. In this case we worked a lot with minimal pairs that for an Arabic speaker are p and b sounds. We went over some words that the tutee knew he had some problems with like "probably" and "bills"/"pills". I asked him to read through a text so I could point out his pronunciation tendencies. He needed to work a bit on syllable/word stress so I explained that concept to him. He read the reading material aloud and afterwards we worked on some comprehension questions for the text. The text was very good as intensive reading material since he learnt a lot of very useful new words but he was still able to comprehend the text.
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