Pronunciation_Practice_Activities.pdf

Pronunciation

Practice Activities

A resource book for teaching

English pronunciation

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Aims

Organisation

Whatis pronunciation?

Keyissuesin pronunciationteachingandlearning

Activities

1 Developingawarenessof Englishpronunciation

1.1 Introducing features of pronunciation

1.2 Getting you thinking: a pronunciation questionnaire

1.3 Making vowel sounds

1.4 Consonant clusters: English and first language

differences

1.5 Comparing slow and quick speech

1.6 Sounding English

1.7 Pronouncing names in English

1.8 Pronouncing places, products and planets

1.9 Impersonations

1.10 Intonation in print

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2 Sounds:vowels,consonantsand consonantclusters

Vowels:correcting particularvowels

2.1 Matching vowel sounds: a family tree

2.2 Finding words including the same vowel sound: word

routes

2. 3 Hearing and saying differences between vowels and between

consonants: minimal pairs

2.4 Communicating with single vowel sounds

2. 5 Classifying words according to their first vowel

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Consonants:correcting particularconsonants

2.6 Who lives where? Minimal pair names

2.7 Lip-reading

2.8 Classifying words according to their first consonant

2.9 Getting rid of unwanted vowels

Wordstress

4.4 Demonstrating syllable length

4.5 Matching words with their stress patterns

+6 Group the words

4.7 Country names

4.8 At the supermarket

4.9 Stress patterns in -ty and -teen numbers (I): Bingo

4.IO Stress patterns in -ty and -teen numbers (2): talking about

accommodation

4. II Stress in noun-verb pairs

4.12 Rules of word stress in two-syllable nouns, adjectives and

verbs

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Consonant clusters

2. IO Word chains

2. II Definitions quiz

2.12 Consonant cluster towers

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3 Connected speech

Linksbetweenwords

3. I Matching adjectives and nouns: consonant to vowel links

3.2 Changing sounds: consonant to consonant links

3.3 Predict the linking sounds: vowels linked with Ij/ (y) and Iwl

3.4 Matching opposites and words that go together: vowels

linked with /r/

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Stress andwordformation

4.13 Rules of word stress: prefixes and suffixes

4.14 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ian

4.15 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ic and -ical

4.16 Stress in phrasal verbs and related nouns

4. 17 Rules of stress in compound nouns

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Contractedforms

3.5 Dialogues

3.6 Talking aboutfamilies

3.7 Comparing speech and writing

Stress in phrases

4.18 Same or different stress patterns?

4.19 Find your partners

4.20 Stress shift in nationality words

4.21 Stress shift in compounds

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Weakandstrongforms of grammarwords

3.8 Comparing weak and strong forms

3.9 Predicting weak and strong forms

3. IO Listening to weak forms

5 Intonation

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Prominence:highlightingwords andsyllables

5. I Introducing prominent and non-prominent words:

'J ames Bond'

5.2 Hearing and saying prominent words: 'They're on

the table'

5.3 Prominence contrasts within words: stalactites and

stalagmites

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Leavingout sounds

3. II Leaving out consonants: ItI and Id/ in clusters

3.12 Leaving out vowels in words

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4 Syllables,word stressand stressin phrases

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Syllables

4. I How many syllables?

4.2 The same or different number of syllables?

4.3 Eliminating words

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Toneunitsandtonic placement

5-4 Dividing speech into tone units

5.5 Tonic word placement: 'At ten to seven, or ten to eight?'

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Tones

5.6 Choosing tones: fall or rise?

5.7 Tone choice in questions

5.8 Falling and falling-rising tones: reservation

5.9 'News' and 'not news': correcting

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Usingphoneticsymbols

8.3 Finding out about sounds

8.4 Relating sounds and symbols

8.5 Transcribing words

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Usingauthenticmaterial

8.6 'Knock, knock' jokes

8.7 Tongue twisters

8.8 Limericks

8.9 Poems with features of connected speech

8. IO Short texts showing features of pronunciation

6 Pronunciation and other parts of language: spelling,

grammar and vocabulary

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Pronunciationandspelling

6. I Grouping English alphabet letters

6.2 Pronouncing single vowel letters (I)

6.3 Pronouncing single vowel letters (2)

6.4 Pronouncing pairs of vowel letters: OU, OA, OE, 01, 00

6.5 Pronouncing consonant letters: C and G

6.6 Pronouncing consonant pairs: PH, CH, SH, TH and GH

6.7 Homographs: a row about rowing?

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Web-basedresources

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Appendix 1 Key to phonetic symbols

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Appendix 2 Common pronunciation problems

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Appendix 3 Initial consonant clusters in English

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Pronunciationandgrammar

6.8 Pronouncing -s in plurals, verbs and possessives

6.9 Pronouncing -ed in past tense verbs

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Appendix 4 Some word stress rules

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Bibliography

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Pronunciation and vocabulary

6. IO Classifying words

6.II Odd one out

6.12 Problem pronunciations

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Index

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7 Testing pronunciation

7. I General evaluation of pronunciation

7.2 Diagnosing particular problems

7. 3 Testing vowels and consonants

7 -4 Testing weak and contracted forms

7. 5 Testing word stress

7. 6 Testing prominence

7. 7 Testing tone

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8 Resources for pronunciation teaching

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Usinga dictionary

8.1 Finding out about word stress

8.2 Finding out about secondary stress: shifting stress

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