Isabelle TS#17

For this session with Henghua, we went over reduced forms. He had told me during our last session that this was something that he wanted to learn more about, so we decided to work on it on this day. We discussed what reduced forms are and when they are used. I showed him a website that had the most common reduced forms and we looked over them, as well as, some examples. I also gave him a reduced forms worksheet that he could keep, which showed the long form and reduced form. I noticed he was worried about saying them, so I told him that he does not need to worry about using them in his speech. This is because he only needs to worry about recognizing it when he hears them. On another website, I played audio clips with reduced forms and had him try to understand what they were saying. If he couldn't figure it out himself, I helped him in understanding what they said. After this, I gave him a dialogue that had the written long forms and I read out the lines using the reduced forms. While I spoke, he had to circle the reduced forms he heard. We then went over the answers together afterwards. At the end of the session, he taught me how to say "driver's license" in Chinese. 

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