Background Notes:

Activity One:

• the goal of this activity is to help your student identify difficulties that she has in dealing with phone calls
• this activity should also help your student realize that the other person may also be partially responsible for her not totally understanding the conversation e.g., the other person spoke far too quickly

Activity Two:

• ask your student to match synonyms (words with similar meanings (e.g., softly, quietly)
• use a thesaurus to locate other synonyms
• another activity would be to discuss root words, prefixes and suffixes e.g., unclear - clear = root word un = prefix
• discuss the meanings of various prefixes and suffixes e.g., un = not