Oh man, do I love when I can use random youtube videos as references in my classes.
So the whole "th" pronounciation thing seems to hit a nerve with me every time, and today when a student pronounced "thinking" as "sinking" I said "no, wrong!" to which they all asked me, "why does it matter?" and in comes the highlight of my day, a little youtube joke, to tell them why it is bad to confuse "sinking" and "thinking." And it even uses present continuous like our unit has been covering, double score.
Enjoy:
Kelsey, a student named John Thorpe who is doing a BHC honors thesis with me...current topic is Russian as a lingua franca in Uzbekistan...but he's interested in the status of Russian in Georgia too and might switch topics...for completely other reasons related to me about this German coast guard YouTube, with the "thinking" vs "sinking" misunderstanding. So I showed him this. He might contact you. Hope that's OK. Nice guy, good student. Best wishes to you. The Blog is GREAT!
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