Warm up activity

Total Physical Response. This method is based on the way children learn for the first part of their life. They just listen, do no talking and respond to commands or imperatives. The class all stood up and using this technique the students learnt to, brush their teeth, comb their hair, wash their face and put their socks on.

Lesson One - Tones and Pronunciation - Page 19

Revision of last weeks sounds. Practicing the new vowel Ô and the names of the vowels.

Lesson 2 - Language Structure - Adverbs, ims and tenses

Revision of pluralisers and categorisers homework from last week.

This weeks language structure lesson was on Adverbs, Isms and Tenses.

Using a basketball the class had to say the correct tense - Chi Tina đã/đang/sẽ nảy trái banh.

Lesson Three - Flashcards

Marise gave us a demonstration using the great flashcards she had made by cutting out pictures from magazines and publications.

The class was divided into three groups, they then had to construct sentences using the eight words Anthony wrote up on the board.

Rao giảng

Nước Đức Chúa Trời

Tháp Canh

Hình Tượng

Tờ giấy mỏng

Cầu nguyện

Phòng Nước Trời

Nhóm họp

They also had to incorporate what they just learnt about tenses into their sentences.

The class came up with some great sentences! Anthony then gave out a handout forhomework. You can choose to make up sentences or flashcards using these words.

Lesson Four - Tones and Pronunciation - Pages 20 & 21

New sound: ÔNG - ONG (pronounced the same)

New sound: ỐP - ỘP

New sound: ỐT - ỘT

New sound: ỐC -ỘC - ÓC - ỌC (pronounced the same)

New Vowel: Ơ

New sound: ƠI

Lesson Five - 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 Six - Culture

Keeping Harmony - how it affects the culture and our ministry.

Lesson Seven - Field Service

Today is the first Saturday of the month, hence, Bible Study Day!! The class received a new presentationfor offering bible studies and had some time to practice with each other.

Homework