EnglishRyan
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2008
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- Canada
- Current Location
- China
Hey guys,
Recently I took on a private student, high profile business guy, who has excellent speaking skills but wants to take them to the next level. His vocabulary is quite extensive and I find it a bit of a challenge putting together lesson plans that really push him to excel. If I were to point out an area of weakness, it would be pronunciation (light Russian accent), but that is about it. He's stressed a desire to diminish his accent as much as possible and we've been doing some repeated business readings (like an I-read-you-read sort of exercise) that have been modestly helpful but this gets dry after a while. I don't want these lessons to diminish into simple 'free talk' sessions as, in my experience, those kinds of lessons do a lot for fluency but little for pronunciation. Can anyone share some pronunciation techniques I can use with this guy? Please keep his extremely high level in mind (thus, basic pronunciation exercises won't work).
Thanks! :-D
Recently I took on a private student, high profile business guy, who has excellent speaking skills but wants to take them to the next level. His vocabulary is quite extensive and I find it a bit of a challenge putting together lesson plans that really push him to excel. If I were to point out an area of weakness, it would be pronunciation (light Russian accent), but that is about it. He's stressed a desire to diminish his accent as much as possible and we've been doing some repeated business readings (like an I-read-you-read sort of exercise) that have been modestly helpful but this gets dry after a while. I don't want these lessons to diminish into simple 'free talk' sessions as, in my experience, those kinds of lessons do a lot for fluency but little for pronunciation. Can anyone share some pronunciation techniques I can use with this guy? Please keep his extremely high level in mind (thus, basic pronunciation exercises won't work).
Thanks! :-D