Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

programs, movies, YouTube videos, advertisements, recipes, menus, poems, and songs. Materials like these will often keep student ...

all. For example, here’s one that is hard enough to discourage even the most eager student: The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep’s ...

Auditory learning (learning through listening): Listening to a model provided by the teacher or a recording. Visual learning (l ...

teacher’s mouth, and probably more pleasant, too! (A list of sources is at the end of this chapter.) If you don’t have a dental ...

the pictures in Box 7.1 and the pattern at the end of this chapter, after the example exercises.) Rubber bands can be used to il ...

Games for teaching sounds We’ve been looking at activities for teaching pronunciation. Games can also be e"ective teaching tools ...

instructions on cards or slips of paper. Change the questions to practice di"erent subject matter. Players throw dice, move the ...

allowed to goof o" or misbehave just because they’re doing something “fun.” Make your expectations stick. During the activity, ...

Know when to quit. If a student tries and tries and still can’t “get it,” pushing further at that moment could just lead to fru ...

Words, Sentences, Dialogs Controlled Practice This handout lists words, phrases, minimal pairs, sentences, and a dialog to pract ...

Weekend Plans Listening Discrimination Practice The purpose of this activity is to practice hearing and pronouncing the front vo ...

(^) 1 November 2 Study for math test 3 4 5 (^6 7) My birthday 8 party! Send thank^9 you notes (^10) Veterans’ Day (^11) Garth B ...

92 Vowel Bingo Listening Discrimination/Guided Practice Each student has a paper with a grid of squares with words written in t ...

The Thistlethorpe Family Tree Guided/Communicative Practice Give pairs of students the family tree. Point out that all the names ...

Phil’s Fabulous Fast Food Communicative Practice The menu contains lots of these sounds: /f v p b h/. Present and practice a sa ...

95 Pronunciation Review Board Game For each group of 3-5 players, you’ll need: A game board Dice A marker for each player (a sm ...

Sources of pronunciation teaching tools Dental models The most reliable source at a reasonable price is Lakeshore Learning: htt ...

Things you can find in hobby or craft stores Feathers, pipe cleaners, glass blobs, popsicle sticks are usually available in hobb ...

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CHAPTER 8 Syllables and Word Stress Segmentals and suprasegmentals Until now we’ve been talking about individual phonemes— conso ...