First Day, Introduction to Phonetics (English)

First day (Focus on Learning how to listen):

* Recognition of some basic sounds which are the most "difficult" to most Brazilian Students to articulate or understand in English;
** Phonetical pairs - Dictation of distinguished pairs of phonemes in similarly pronounced words;
*** Working on Listening and writing lyrics of songs - Today: The look of Love, sung by Diana Krall, Canadian singer and composer (step by step to how "get a song by listening to it": blanking, filling these blanks and checking);
**** Mixed-voices game;
*****Other steps.

Site used in class: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/pk.htm

I´ll post some more later.
Any questions??? Write to t.a.mercy@hotmail.com.

Kisses & Hugs,
teacher Mercy.

The videorecipes today were amazing and very very funny. Thank you, guys!

You know, one of the greatest things in being a teacher, especially teaching teenagers, is because, even though they seem to be afraid of a video challenge, they really go for it and do a great job!

Guiding you is joyful and rewarding, my students.
Thanks for being one of my bestest gifts in life.
Besides my family and friends, you also make my life and job happier, funnier and more and more interesting.

I love teaching. And you, guys, help me such a lot at this loving.
I love getting the best from you all. From all my classes and other groups of students.

Congrats for the successfully accomplished homework.
Your photos will be here (class of 1.101.1V), soon. I´ll be uploading them today night (Amen! As soon the baby goes to bed).

I still owe 1.101.1M theirs. ;0)

Turma boa!!! Pena que nem todos entregaram os vídeos hoje... :0(

Mas as receitas estavam de muito boas e interessantes a maravilhosas...pena que houve algumas que nem experimentei, não é meninos do grupo de Marcelinho?!

Now I´ve got dentist to go. Ough! KKK.

See you.
Love.

Teacher Mercy.

Dicas de site para pronúncia e chamada para a Expotec

Pessoal (My students), duas coisinhas:

Primeira:
Estarei ministrando mini-curso "Fonética básica da Língua Inglesa" nos 3 dias da nossa Expotec.
Há cerca de 25 vagas. Busquem no nosso site como se inscreverem.(No site, até dia 07 mas, vão na DIAC e vejam se esse prazo pode ser prorrogado um pouco já que ontem ainda havia professor fazendo inscrição na hora da nossa reunião).
Inscrições através do link abaixo:
http://extensao.ifrn.edu.br/expotec/index.html

Todas as minhas turmas estarão com listas de presença para o dia da Exposição de trabalhos de alunos meus (desde 2008) em VIDEOTASKS. (Videoreceitas, Documentários, Animações, etc.)

Certamente, será em um dos laboratórios (mando por email) e no segundo dia do evento, okey?

Agora, a segunda "coisinha"...

Para os grupos de alunos cujos trabalhos (dos curtas e videoreceitas) não tive tempo de ver a prévia na íntegra, eis os Links com GUIAS DE PRONÚNCIA para esses grupos que não puderam estar comigo e rever as falas de seus trabalhos.

http://www.inglesonline.com.br/2007/04/12/guia-de-pronuncia-do-ingles-com-audio-e-exercicios/

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/activities/index.htm (um dos meus favoritos)
http://www.inglesonline.com.br/category/pronuncia/ (a partir deste, vc pode chagar em outros links interessantes)

From now, that's all.
Love you all.

Kisses,
Your teacher Mercy.