Steve: Hello and welcome to PrivateEnglishPortal.com. My name is Steve and we have our mystery student class of the week. Our mystery student should be skipping me in at moment. So let us listen in. Okay, I have got his call or her call. Whoever’s call.
Student: To make a wish and catch a fish and sweet.
Steve: Hello!
Student: Hello master.
Steve: Actually I am your English teacher for today, but you can call me Steve.
Student: Okay master.
Steve: Okay and you must be our mystery student. Is that right?
Student: That is right master. I have come to learn.
Steve: Great
Student: Learn, learn and learn.
Steve: Fabulous.
Student: But maybe, maybe she could do it.
Steve: She! Actually on our camera here mystery student, I just see you today. There is just one of you. There is just one of you. I can just--
Student: You see us.
Steve: Okay, I guess your friend there is just being a little on the quiet side because I could just see you.
Student: So the teacher does not see us.
Steve: Right, right, anyways today we are going to be learning a tongue twister. Do you know what a tongue twister is?
Student: No, no, not listening, not listening
Steve: Okay, actually mystery student I am getting some feedback on my speakers. Could you put your head phones back on? I think this should solve the funny echo thing here.
Student: (Foreign Language)
Steve: Okay, looks like we are getting to some sort of normal. Anyways, today we are going to be learning a tongue twister which is a sentence which we repeat as a tool to learn pronunciation. So are we ready, mystery student?
Student: Yes! Yes!-Yes!-Yes!
Steve: Okay, repeat after me “She”.
Student: Its.
Steve: No She.
Student: Its.
Steve: She.
Student: She.
Steve: Very good. Excellent, you got on the third try. She sells, try this sells.
Student: She sells.
Steve: Great, she sells seashells. Can you say seashells for me?
Student: Fishes, yes fishes.
Steve: No, that word in fact is related to a form of aquatic life in a general sense, but what I would like you to say is seashells. So if you could just say that for me mystery student.
Student: Fishes, fishes.
Steve: Seashells.
Student: To make a wish and catch a fish and sweet.
Steve: So you like fish yes.
Student: Yes, we like it fresh and warm and grueling fishes.
Steve: Lovely and thank you for sharing that with us. Can you say seashells?
Student: Seashells.
Steve: Excellent. Now let us take it from the top. She sells seashells
Student: She sells seashells.
Steve: Very good, very good. Now I would like you to repeat this one, on the seashore.
Student: On the precious.
Steve: No, not on the precious. I do not know where you are coming from with that, but just try on the seashore.
Student: On the precious.
Steve: Seashore.
Student: No, on the precious.
Steve: No, seashore.
Student: Precious.
Steve: No, no, no. let us try some reverse psychology here with our mystery student, mystery student if you can just repeat and say precious.
Student: Seashore.
Steve: Okay, beauty.
Student: Seashore.
Steve: Yes, now how about on the seashore.
Student: On the seashore.
Steve: Okay great. Now let us try that three times really fast. She sells seashells on the seashore. She sells seashells on the seashore. She sells seashells on the seashore. Now you try that mystery student. I know you can do it
Student: I am dying to be sea. Yes, yes. She sells seashells on the seashore.
Steve: Good.
Student: She sells seashells on the seashore
Steve: Fabulous.
Student: She sells seashells on the precious.
Steve: That was pretty good over all. You did switch seashore with precious on your third try, but overall job well done. Now what you could do for homework is practice this tongue twister at home in front of the mirror and say it three times really fast. Now you will do that would you not?
Student: Homework master, oh no we would not.
Steve: Anyway you are free to practice that on your own and I would like to thank you mystery student for being on our online class for this week. And you are free to go.
Student: Go.
Steve: Class is over.
Student: Over. Now mystery student is free.
Steve: Okay, wow. Bye and I will skype you out. Okay, well that is our mystery student of the week. Email me your answer as to who you think the mystery student is. Bye-bye.
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