Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The unplugged pencil

This is my very first sound blog. I tought it'd be faster. No. :)
The great thing about Soundcloud is that you can comment in the track, so please do so.


This is how this huge pencil I got from Alexandra Chistyakova inspired two one-to-one lessons, one with a young learner and one with an adult learner.



YL lesson


 














Here you can see her learning blog of that lesson.



Adult learner fluency pencil trick







The list of emergent phrases:
fell in love with you
is in love with ...

took a direct flight
no problem during the journey
pleasant flight
didn't take too much luggage

two handbags, two suitcases
in a hotel near Moscow in a small village
stay
cheaper solution

in this they went to Moscow every day
He was trying to find business partners.
a lot of / various / a bunch of / a number of
several sizes of factories
They met the owner of one of the factories.

fat elderly red-faced lady
She was happy with the meeting as she had a lot of red pencils which are cheap and of good quality.
Good value for the price.




Ideas and comments are very welcome!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Barbi! It's just wonderful! Great idea and post! :) I would love to get in touch with Lilli! :)

Anonymous said...

Barbi! It's just wonderful! Great idea and post! :) I would live to get in touch with Lilli! :)

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