Lesson 1

Revisions of sounds so far, in particular practicing NG.

New sounds ÔNG - ONG / ỐP - ỘP / ỐT - ỘT / ỐC - ỘC - ÓC - ỌC (Page 20 of Tones and Sounds)

The class practiced the difference between ÔT and ÔC

Lesson 2

(Week 10 Worksheet)

Revision of homework for Language structure pluralisers and categorisers, then on to this week's language structure lesson - Adverbs, Ism's and Tenses. Vietnamese is so much easier than English when it comes to tenses - no conjugating verbs - run, ran, running, hang, hung, hanged, hanging, no past tense/past participles etc etc. The verbs never change, so just add ĐÃ, ĐANG or SẼ  before the verb and you're done!

Lesson 3

The class shared the flashcards they had made for the words last week, then Anthony wrote 8 words/phrases on the board. (Worksheet - Theocratic Terms)

Rao giảng

Nước Đức Chúa Trời

Tháp Canh

Hình Tượng

Tờ giấy mỏng

Cầu nguyện

Phòng Nước Trời

Nhóm họp

Then he showed the class 8 corresponding pictures and they had to match the pictures to the words. They also received another sheet of words to learn this week, make more flashcards if you would like to for these words!

Lesson 4

(Worksheet)

New Vowel Ơ
New Sounds ƠI / ƠM / ƠN / ỚP - ỢP / ỚT - ỢT

The class then practiced the difference between Lơn and Lên

Lesson 5

Translation! Translation inadvertently teaches grammar. The class translated the first paragraph of the first story in the Bible Stories book. Translating word for word then reading it back in English teaches us how Vietnamese sentences are structured. We could learn sentence structure directly, but learning this way helps us to know instinctively the way a sentence will be structured. For example: How do we know how the following sentence is structured incorrectly? And God did create Earth for us to reside. Shouldn't it be And God made the earth for us to live on? Yet in Vietnamese..Và Đức Chúa Trời đã tạo ra trái đất cho chúng ta ở, the sentence structure is correct. The class will translate the first story this week and the second story next week, then over time translate the rest of the bible stories book. This will give them a very solid understanding of Vietnamese sentence structure! The class were given a photocopy of story 1 and a chart with all the words from the story on it (saves lots of time searching through dictionarys..)

Lesson 6

Springvale South Congregation has a campaign to start bible studies in the month of July. With that in mind we have a new sentence to add to our presentation.

Today I invite Brother/Sister study bible at home no cost.

Hôm nay tôi mời Anh/Chị học Kinh Thánh tài nhà miễn phí.

Use the information you already have in your presentations to create your own presentation to offer bible studies in the month of July!

Homework As per homework Sheet