Week 8 Notes

Warm Up

Vietnamese Whispers. The class stood in three straight lines. The leader of each line was given one of three Vietnamese sentences:

Ba có ba lá cây

Sách này hay sách khác

Cô Mai có hai tai

The leader of each line was to then whisper their sentence to the next person standing in the line, and so on and so forth. The first line to have the team member standing in the last position recite the Vietnamese sentence accurately wins!

Lesson 1 - Tones and Pronunciation

We continued with our O sounds. OACH / OET / ON / OAI / OM / OP.

Pages 37-39. Here is its audio.

Lesson 2 - 800 Words

Flash Cards! Except for a brief summary at the end, this entire lesson was delivered in Vietnamese. The class easily followed the basic Vietnamese instructions, stand up, sit down, please be quiet, sisters stand up only, etc. The class was shown 10 Flash Cards of simple images and actions. Without mentioning the English equivalent at all, the class was given the Vietnamese word for the image each time. We kept going back to the same images over and over, and equating the new words to the recognizable images. This mimics how an infant learns language. By equating the new world they are discovering with their eyes with these new words and basic commands they are hearing from their parents, the infant absorbs the language. The class was amazed at how quickly they learned these 10 Words using this flash card and total Vietnamese method and how they were able to follow everything despite no English being used.

Here is the Audio of the 10 Flash Card words.

Lesson 3 - Composite Words

The students were given the Composite Words handout. It explains how a monosyllabic language such as Vietnamese can create new words and describe different nuances of meaning by combining different base words.

Here is the Audio of the Composite Words handout.

Tea Break

Lesson 4 - Tones and Pronunciation

We completed our O sounds. OT / OC / ONG - ÔNG / OAY / OEN / OĂM / OĂN - OĂNG / OĂC - OĂT.

Pages 40-42. Here is its audio.

Lesson 5 - Language Structure 1

This is the first of the Language Structure Lessons we will have over the next few weeks. This lesson explains the affect "Sự" has on Adjectives and Verbs. Then we discussed Affirmative Infinitives and Negative Infinitives.

Here is the audio for this language structure lesson.

Lesson 6 - Culture

The Class was treated to an interview. Chị Vung was interviewed by Anh Phong and we all discovered a snapshot of Chị Vung's life story and also how she came into the truth.

Lesson 7 - Field Service

Class was split into 5 groups and each group was helped by a Native Vietnamese helper to listen to the current magazine presentation to help the students fine tune their pronunciation and delivery.

Homework

As per homework sheet as well as Week 8 Words of the Day list. Here is Week 8 Word of the Day Audio.

Also because we didn't post it last week, here is Week 7's Word of the Day list, and here is Week 7 Word of the Day Audio.