English Out There Online Case Study - Waldek, Poland - Episode 7 - The internet

Here is a bit of an experiment for lesson 7. Over the last couple of sessions I realised that Waldek's use of articles needed some attention. I found an EOT lesson on the use of articles and collocations that I wanted to use but it was an Upper Intermediate lesson (so two levels higher!). Quite a big test. But I think it worked. See what you think?Listen to episode 6 and try to hear Waldek's use of articles and then listen to lesson 7 for the same. In my opinion the lesson, working with the language, has focused what Krashen would call his 'monitor' on the use of articles and he corrects himself (there are little pauses if you can hear them).In my experience, trying to correct someone like Waldek's habitual spoken grammatical errors is incredibly difficult. But I think we made an excellent start here using EOT.Listen to the feedback session where he and I discuss using a higher level lesson for this purpose and him telling me how he coped with it. It took a lot more work and time but the effort was, I think, rewarded. Waldek seems very happy anyway! :-)Here's the transcript from the Skype chat box for the session (audio recorded using Pamela call recorder on Skype - free version):[10:44:43] Waldeck: Hi Jason how are you?[10:45:23] Jason West: Yeah, okay, you?[10:46:15] Waldeck: Me too :) adn :([10:46:42] Waldeck: But we can work .. If you don't mind[10:47:15] Waldeck: and :([10:47:37] Jason West: Yeah, ok, is 5 mins ok? Sorry about the Smolensk aircrash...terrible. See you on FB in 5[10:48:28] Waldeck: maby heare will be beter[10:48:50] Jason West: Ok, we can do it here...give me 5..[10:48:57] Waldeck: ok[10:54:01] Waldeck: here[10:54:16] Jason West: ok..one sec[10:55:01] Waldeck: not heare, my spaling os awful[10:55:25] Jason West: ok, call me[10:55:39] *** Call from Waldeck, duration 04:44. ***[11:00:34] *** Call from Waldeck, duration 02:06. ***[11:00:44] Waldeck: ptak[11:02:41] *** Call ended ***[11:05:35] *** Call to Waldeck, duration 15:03. ***[11:11:00] Jason West: friction[11:13:18] Jason West: regards[11:20:38] *** Call ended ***[11:21:33] *** Call to Waldeck, duration 10:34. ***