Morning Entry

The oral report is written. Hmmm, that sounds odd, doesn’t it! But I have to work out the sentences and make sure the vocabulary is as correct as I can make it.  I am still having problems with auxiliary verbs…

This morning I will transfer what I need to cards. I have found that I am helped by writing each point in English on the card and then listing the key Italian words and phrases on there. I also need a card of what I am going to write on the board. This was a suggestion la prof made. She suggested  that if we used a word  that had not been used in class, it would help the listeners if it was on the board with its meaning. The main two I am putting on the board are "l’articolazione" which is "the pronunciation" and the related verb "articolare" which is "to pronounce." These words are not that easy to pronounce but I can remember their meaning easily by relating them to their cognate "articulate" which is a word I heard often as a teenager during my speech therapy classes! {I LOVE the word used then for those classes which was "elocution!"}

This morning I am carrying bags of clothing up and down stairs to the washer and drier in between working on the bits and pieces of the oral report still to be done. I also want to get the last two pages of the five-page report in English out of my head and onto paper. Then I can print it out and decide what changes need to be made. Other Italian-related things that need to be done are the raccontino and, if I have time, the grammar work for extra credit. Then I must focus on being able to give the oral report with very little looking at the cards. This is due on Tuesday, and, as I have mentioned, I am the first one. 

The tree is up and decorated. There are wrapped gifts under it and not all of them were put there by me!

Until later….