The meeting of 10/25 was canceled because of the once-in-a-life-time typhoon!

Gerald shared his ‘Homework song’ and played the song with his guitar.

       Joanne brought a Thanksgiving chant to share with us.   

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2:10~3:00  Dr. Sroda talked about ‘Poetry and Pronunciation in teaching English’   

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‘Poetry and Pronunciation in teaching English’ by Dr. Sroda

1.      ‘No Pancake for you’: stress

2.      intonation: rising at the end –not knowing the answer,

 falling at the end—WH questions

3.      A good way to teach prosody—poetry and song (English is a rhythm-time language). And the use of tong twister.

4.      Chant and nursery is also a good way to address the prosody:

a.      I’m little teapot

b.      The Eentsy, Weentsy Spider

c.       Twinkle, twinkle little star

d.      Row your boat

e.      One potato, two potato

f.        Two Little Blackbirds

g.      Panic on being late 、Argument chant(from ‘Jazz Chants by Carolyn Graham)

Leanne shared a chant she made:

        What’s your name? ＊2

        Please tell me, what’s your name.

        Jimmy. Jimmy is my name.

James shared another one tuned: Row your boat

        Pork, Pork, Pork and Beef.

        Pork and Beef and Chicken.

        These are the meats we like to eat,

        We also like the lamb.

5.      Singing Songs:

a. The weather song

b. On Top of Spaghetti

Joanne shared a song from the idea of ‘Ten Little Indians’

  One juicy, Two juicy, Three juicy turkey

  ….

  ….

  Ten juicy turkeys all for me!

And Alenda, Leanne and Gerald also shared some other songs.

6.      Pick a tune that everyone knows, say’ twinkle little star’

And practice pronunciation like this:

               /ka/……

7.      Long rhyming stories: one of Sue’s favorites—Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess

Extra comments:

        Jimmy and Alenda will present their TPR game next time.