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During our previous meeting we worked on some reading comprehension exercises that Mg seemed to like but he mentioned that he wanted to practice more on pronunciation so I prepared some exercises for our last meeting. We met at Starbucks and we went over some of the exercises. I also thought that going over homophones with Mg would be relevant to the lesson so I had a chart containing the most common homophones prepared. We started with the vowels on the pronunciation worksheet (listen below). Mg seemed to have some issues with the “u” sound found in the word union. We went through the “u” section on the worksheet and came up with examples for every type of “u” sound that can occur in English. We came up with words such as bull, dull, cute, union, stuff, and cup. Mg was writing the words as we defined each different sound in correlation with 1-4 in the “u” section on the worksheet. The vowel “e” was a little less difficult than “u” for Mg but he still had some minor difficulty with words such as “beta.” I explained that it can be said as “ay” which Mg wrote down and began pronouncing. It seemed as if writing everything helped Mg retain and pronounce the words present. We didn’t have much time after finishing this worksheet so we decided to quickly go over the homophones. 

I explained to Mg what a homophone was and used some examples such as “meet” and “meat.” He said that he had heard of this before but he liked reviewing pieces of the English language like this. I asked for an example and he provided “their” and “there.” I told him that was a perfect example and it actually appeared on the list (found below). We went over the list together with me reading every fifth set and Mg reading all in between. We quickly ran out of time so we said our goodbyes. Mg is a very nice guy and he is very smart. We wished each other the best of luck in the future and I told Mg that he can contact me with any questions that he may have in the future. 

http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/frank/KISS/kiss22.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/homophones-list.htm