Channel: Pronunciation Pro

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Description: Each week at Pronunciation Pro we do a weekly challenge! This is an opportunity for our students to get feedback on their pronunciation by reading a paragraph of our choice. This week, we read a section of the TEDtalk by Alex Smith called “An NFL quarterback on overcoming setbacks and self-doubt” Read the paragraph along with the student and focus on making the changes that are mentioned in this video. Some of the words/phrases that I work through are: And what got me here Mental one Anxiety Self-inflicted A military guy A linebacker Excentric coach Shoved /u/ White sheet Through They stared me Make sure to go through the reading twice! Your first time will be a great warm up. On the second time try being more deliberate. The paragraph that they are reading is below: “I’m proud that I made it back out onto the field, but I'm more proud of what got me there. Not the physical journey, but the mental one. I've learned that so much of the anxiety that holds us back in life, it's self-inflicted. We make it worse on ourselves. And it's OK if we need somebody to help us snap out of it. For me, that was my wife, a military guy, a linebacker or an eccentric coach. They taught me that I had to see my fears for what they are. And that's why, looking back, I know that my recovery didn't actually start when Johnny shoved me in the chest. First, I had to pull back that white sheet. For weeks and weeks, I'd been hearing my wife tell me how great my leg looked. She helped me get to that point. I was ready. These scars, they're not just a reminder of everything I've been through, but more so, everything that's in front of me. They stare me in my face. Challenging me to be myself. To help others out of their own spirals when I can.”