- Use a linguistics chart of the head to explain where all the sounds are located.
- Give students a tactile and visual feel for where sounds are
- Becomes important later for sound changes
- Give some history of the alphabet and trace how it came down to English
- trace some letters out acrophonically (eg aleph > alpum)
- point isn’t really to teach ancient abjab, but to interest students, and show what is there
- also may give some hooks for memory, but won’t have time to do all letters
- Discuss the concept of a word family, like a fact family in math.
- We have this in English, but nowhere near to the degree in Semitic languages.