Jules TP-11

For our tutoring session on Friday, I gave Ahmed a quiz on the idioms we had learned in my class on Wednesday. Some examples of the phrases we covered were "to deal with something", "to get someone down", and "to get under someone's skin". He did a great job at giving examples of each, like "The CIES students' low TOEFL scores got them down." (He even got the s-apostrophe correct, which is more than I can say for a great deal of native English speakers!) Then we practiced distinguishing between the P and B sounds, which are especially difficult for native Arabic speakers. He would do really well when he was focusing on voicing the B's and keeping the P's silent, but when he got really involved in conversation the P's started getting softer so I had to continually remind him that the P sound is very sharP and Precise. Of course we had to Practice the Peter Piper Poem to Perfect the Pronunciation of P!