Salah TS #16

29/4/15 (19:30 - 20:30)

Starbucks (W.Tennessee St.)

Topics: New vocabulary words, pronunciation of words and syllable sounds, reviewing countable vs non countable nouns.

I tutored Mohammad Alrashidi again for this final TS session and it followed on from our hour of conversation (see: Salah CP # 6).  

Mohammad told me he had struggled with a few new vocab words in his IELTs test last week.  We reviewed a few tougher vocab words, such as: fraud/fraudulent; complicated; evidence; shortcut; hippopotamus, commonly etc.

Some of these were high frequency words Mohammad had heard before, for example in the phrase: ‘commonly used words’.

I explained meanings of words such as: trauma/traumatically, rely/reliable, etc.  

We then worked on pronunciation of words and I encouraged Mohammad to break the words up into their syllable sounds ex: Ac-a-dem-ic, En-thu-si-as-tic and Acq-uain-tance etc.  I also tested his ability to spell the words correctly, by writing them out on paper. 

Lastly, I noticed Mohammad had a tendency to say 'slangs' instead of 'slang', so we reviewed the difference between countable and non-countable nouns and I explained that the word slang was treated the same as the word 'information' ie: it would be wrong to say 'informations'.