Session 7 Review: Sample Responses

Sample lesson for Carine: /th/ (as in thick) and /t/

A. Introduction:

  • Show diagram (with a side view) and explain the following: When making the "th" sound, put your tongue between your teeth. Your tongue should lightly touch your top and bottom teeth. Your tongue should be flat. Your tongue will stick out of your mouth a little. Blow air out between your top set of teeth and your tongue.
  • Place the mirror in front of my mouth, positioning it so Carine can see where my tongue is placed and how my lips move in the mirror.
  • Say the following words: thick, think, thumb.
  • Ask Carine to try and say "thick" while visualizing how her articulators should be placed. Make sure that she is not moving her tongue into her mouth as she tries to make the sound.

B. Listening:

Do the following listening discrimination exercises:

Circle the word that you hear.

  1. Send (tanks, thanks.)
  2. After she finished her last university class, she (taught / thought) for some time.
  3. The (bath, bat) is already being used.
  4. Do you want to see pictures of the (tree, three)?
  5. What happened to his (tie, thigh)?