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Yuri: Fluency Outage & Circumlocution Games

Student: Yuri (B1)
Duration: 60 mins
Focus: Spontaneous Production (Games)
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🔊 Shadowing Pacer: Diagnostics Call

Shadowing Focus: Focus on stress pacing and the unvoiced/voiced TH sounds (through, the, other).

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Record yourself, then compare with the model
🎯 Speaking Goal: Circumlocution

Circumlocution is describing a word when you cannot remember it. Instead of freezing or stopping when you miss a term, use these starter phrases:

💡 "It's a device that..." | "It is responsible for..." | "It acts as a buffer between..." | "It's the opposite of..."

🚨 Game 1: The Clinic Server Outage

Instructions: Read the scenario and select your troubleshooting choices. For each decision, Yuri must defend his choice using conditionals: "If I choose A, I will... / If I were to choose B, I would...".

OUTAGE_SIMULATOR_V2.0 ALERT: CRITICAL OUTAGE

[STORY STAGE 1] The Emergency Alert

It is 2:00 PM on a busy Tuesday. The hospital pharmacy database is offline. Doctors cannot pull patient records, and lines are forming at the registration desks.

What is your first troubleshooting step? Explain your choice to the clinic director!
🎮 Game 2: Tech Taboo (Circumlocution Trainer)

Instructions: Click a card to flip it. Yuri must explain the target term to the teacher within 60 seconds, without using the word itself OR the three "taboo" words listed!

60
Card 1
Server
  • computer
  • internet
  • hosting
Card 2
Wi-Fi
  • connection
  • wireless
  • router
Card 3
Firewall
  • security
  • block
  • network
Card 4
Database
  • SQL
  • store
  • tables
Card 5
API
  • code
  • request
  • application
Card 6
Recursion
  • loop
  • function
  • repeat