Reflective Journal

Day 19  Date 19/04/2018

 Things I learned and did today: I practiced the sounds /f/ and/v/, listened to others’ dialogues and ranked their phonetics. Also, we learned some information about assimilation.

For today, my English speech has the following features of Russian accent:  slow tempo, lack of force of articulation (consonants)  

I  would give 7  points out of 10 for my pronunciation today because of these mistakes

For today, English speech of my partner has the following features of Russian accent: wrong intonation patterns in the beginning of the dialogue (the Fall-Rise should be wider, the Low-Rise should start lower than she did)

 I would give points 6 out of 10 for my partner’s pronunciation today because of mistakes in tunes.

Impressions for today’s lesson: We did a lot of things that helped me to understand my mistakes and compare with others, I’d refreshed my mind of using the assimilation.

To improve my results, I should do the following task at home:  I’ll read more about assimilation and try to practice this phenomenon.