The other day, 2 of my students (P and L) and I were playing “Go- Fish”. We were playing Go-Fish with articulation cards (like most normal people do) that were for the /r/ blends (/br/, /tr/, /fr/, /gr/ etc)
After explaning the rule, we began playing. A few minutes into the game, While L and I were watching, P picks up the “grape “card and puts it into his pile.
Here is the conversation that followed.
L: ‘P, do you have grape.’
P (my really kind, truthful, wanting to win student): ‘NO’
Me: ‘P, you don’t have grape?’
P: ‘No, mis Thomas, I really don’t.’
Me: ‘P, are you sure you don’t have a card that has the picture of a grape? ‘
P: ‘Definitely not Ms. Thomas.’
Me: ‘But I definitely saw you pick up a card that had the picture of a fruit on it. Do you want to maybe double check for me and see what that card is?’
P: ‘Oh! Sure Ms. Thomas’ (and he proceeds to shuffle through the cards).
P:' Oh! Ms. Thomas, I do have a card but it’s that of a banana.'
(Please remember ... we were are playing GO-Fish with sound blend cards)
Me: 'Uhh… Hmm…. What card?'
P: 'Banana Ms. Thomas, Banana'
Me: 'Ok, P but you do realize that the word “Banana “does not have a blend right. Remember “blends” which we are working on.'
P: 'I KNOW …. Ms. Thomas, you are not listening right.. I said “brnana” NOT “banana”… see…”brnana” has a /br/.'
REALLY ???????????