[RELO] Pronunciation Tips and Tricks For Your Classroom

Pronunciation Tips and Tricks for your classroom

Rae Roberts Sara Meza

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Pronunciation What words come to your mind?

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How young can children begin to distinguish the sounds in their native language? 1 day, 1 month, 1 year?

How important is pronunciation comprehension?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5xu35bAxA

Numbers are scary!5

Teens smile/smile ty-Smile/pause/drop Thirteen thirty Fourteen forty Fifteen fifty sixteen sixty Seventeen seventy Eighteen eighty Nineteen ninety

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Numbers

Classroom tip1.Have the students work in pairs.

2. Have one person in the pair SILENTLY say 13 or 30, keeping their hands on their cheeks.

3. Have the partner guess the number by watching the facial movements

Are you a person with a past?

The sound of “ed”

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ed=soundsT ( walked) D (filled)/əd/ wanted (tid) extra syllable/əd/ ended (did) extra syllable

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Simple past– “ed”sounds not spelling or letters

Ed ending in Simple pastDo you feel vibration on the last sound of these verbs? Yes or no?Sail Cook Play Wash Voiced=D Voiceless=T /əd/(Schwa)Wait End

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Voiced?

1) Stay–- voiced, ends in a vowel sound2) beg--- V? 3) Cough-V?

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Voiced? Voiceless?

1) Stay–--- voiced- ends in a vowel sound 2) beg----- voiced 3) Cough--voiceless

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T/D/or /əd/?

1) beg----- 2) Cough--3) Want----

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T/D/or /əd/?

1) beg----- D 2) Cough-- T3) Want---- /əd/

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Classroom tip1. Write 10 verbs on the board

2. Have the students work in pairs or small groups.

3. Have the students make 3 columns on a sheet of paper. Put T at the top of column 1Put D at the top of column 2Put /əd/at the top of column 3

4. Have the students write the verbs in the correct columns by pronouncing the last sound of the verb.

So, can you or can’t you sing??

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can vs. can’t

I can sing (Ikan sing) “wekan,hekan,shekan” sing Can is unstressedI can’t sing ( I CAN—t----sing.)

CAN’t– is stressed

Can

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Classroom Tip1. Have the students write 2 things they can do and 2 things they can’t do. DON’T LET ANYONE SEE!

2. Have the students number their paper from 1-4.

3. Have the students work in pairs to write can or can’t on their numbered paper as their partner says the sentences to them.

4. Have them check their answers.

PLURALS AND 3ED PERSON VERBSS or Z SOUNDSNouns VerbsChair run, go(Voiced) +Z Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nouns VerbsCat cook (Unvoiced)+S

SSSSSSSSSSS

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Voiced or voiceless?

1.Wait– 2.Boy–-

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Voiced or voiceless?1. Wait– voiceless wait (s)2. Boy–- voiced boy (z)

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/əz/ extra syllable (/ə/ schwa)

/s/,/ss/or /z/, class, size

/sh/or /ch/, wash, watch

/ge/or/dge/ change, judge

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Final Exam! S/Z or /əz/?

1) match-2) clean-3) book-

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Final Exam! S/Z or /əz/?

1) match-/əz/ matches2) clean—z cleans3) book—s books

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Classroom tip Divide the class into groups of 4-6. Give each group 3 cards with the pictures

below. Say a noun or verb. The first group to hold

up the correct picture gets a point.

ZZZZZZZZZZZ SSSSSSSSSSSS

/əz/

sentence stress are key ideas

1.-HE says he loves my sister.2.-He SAYS he loves my sister.3.-He says HE loves my sister.4.-He says he LOVES my sister.5.-He says he loves MY sister.6.-He says he loves my SISTER.

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Do you have rhythm?

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Jazz Chants- Carolyn GrahamHi! How ARE you?

Fine. How are YOU?Hi! How ARE you?

Fine. How are YOU?

Hi! How ARE you?Hi! How ARE you?Hi! How ARE you?

Fine. How are YOU?

I have a terrible sense of direction. I never know which way to go. This way or that way? This way or that way? I never know which way to go. I think that it’s that way, but maybe I am wrong. I never know which way to go.

I have a wonderful sense of direction. I always know which way to go. Turn left. Turn right. I always know which way to go. I know that it’s that way. I never am wrong I always know which way to go.Source: bridgeTEFL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAYwoLZso7s

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Thanks for listening!

Rae Roberts, Senior English Language Fellow, Lima, Peru

Sara Meza, “Antonio Raymondi” School, San Martin de Porres, Peru

E-mail: roberts_rae@yahoo.comE-mail: misssarameza@gmail.com

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Attributions Baby photo from Creative Commons by

flicker. Photo contributed by Julian Haler.

Hi! How are you?, is by Carolyn Graham in Small Talk: more jazz chants.