Class #1, October 4th, 2012 @ 3pm

Class #1: October 4th, 2012 @ 3pm

During this first class, we mainly introduced ourselves since it was the first time we met. Once we found a comfortable playing field, we began to look at what Isabelle worked on in the previous English courses she took. We then continued on by creating a page written on the subject of 'Daily Routine.' We corrected any grammatical errors and perfected our use of the English language. From there, we went into further detail when it came to likes and preferences. The phrase below is an example of what we accomplished:

"On a typical day of mine, I wake up at 7am (or seven o'clock). At 7:15am, my husband brings me breakfast in bed. I like to have coffee and toast with apricot jam. Afterwards, I make the bed, go to kiss my children and begin the day, etc."

We talked a little about sentence structure and highlighted the verbs that we used, the prepositions and the articles. From those lists, we divided the verbs into Regular and Irregular Verbs to see the difference in past tense endings. We briefly touched upon the differences in the regular verb endings in the past tense form.

For example:

Regular Verbs

Work-->Worked (t)

Play-->Played (d)

Live-->Lived (d)

Need-->Needed (id)

The three different phonetic endings are: (t), (d) and (id).

Irregular Verbs

See --> Saw

Have --> Had

Buy --> Bought

Bring --> Brought

I was able to notice that the pronunciation of the b and r were very difficult to pronounce for Isabelle. Therefore, in our next class, we can focus a little more closely on these two sounds.

I truly enjoyed meeting Isabelle and look forward to working more closely with her to get her to reach her English language goals.

Jessica