| T: | Well no, you haven’t because we’ll look at it again, so it’s looking at your article where you were reading, if we look at a word like here [time], so if we just have Tim is Tim and put the ‘e’ on the here. | |
| L: | Time. | |
| T: | So you’re gonna say the … | |
| L: | i | |
| T: | i sound, OK. So what I’ll do now, is I’ve introduced you to that, when we’re reading, we’ll look at words, and I’ll go, well what’s you know and if you’re not sure of something, I’ll say, well, what’s the ‘e’ going to do to that vowel and we’ll talk about it as we go along because, so it’s just introducing a little skill like that at a time. | |
| L: | Oh yeah, I like that. | |
| T: | It opens up new words for you. So, I mean another one you have [writes Sam] | |
| L: | same | |
| T: | the ‘a’ sound | |
| L: | That’s how I got that, ‘cause I went ‘ame’. The ‘ame’ in same, yeah. |
This teacher also discussed with her student what constituted a sentence and identified its components. Another teacher asked her student for examples of nouns, common nouns and proper nouns.
| T: | OK. Let’s have a look at nouns, looking for nouns, what are nouns? What’s a common noun? What do nouns do? | |
| L: | Name things? | |
| T: | OK, name things. | |
| L: | Hmm | |
| T: | Cool. Do you remember a common noun is? | |
| L: | It’s something that’s still … | |
| T: | A ball, anything, a ball, a car, a computer OK, do you remember what a proper noun is? Proper noun … | |
| L: | Capitals …? | |
| T: | And it’s normally a place or a name of a person a place or a …? Can you give me a couple of examples? | |
| L: | Captain Cook I suppose, Australia, London … | |
| T: | Jesus Christ? | |
| L: | Yeah, well he’s the main man! | |
| T: | Good, so proper nouns are particular persons, places can you remember that one? | |
| L: | Yeah. | |
| T: | OK, collective noun, do you remember that one? | |
| L: | A group of things. | |
| T: | A group of things. Right, give me a couple of examples? | |
| L: | Swarm of bees. | |
| T: | Good, swarm of bees, a … | |
| L: | Mongrel Mob eh, debt collectors - that’s a gang of things eh, a gang of, I don’t mean a gang … | |
| T: | A big group of people or things eh? | |
| L: | Yeah. | |
| T: | OK, so what about verbs | |
| L: | Good question, can’t remember now (laughs) | |
| T: | Cause you do. | |
| L: | Yeah, now … | |
| T: | Of doing … | |
| L: | Of doing things … | |
| T: | Like what, give me an example ... | |
| L: | Like I went to the shop. | |
| T: | Great. |