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HOW TO TEACH SOME SOUNDS IN ENGLISH?
Strategies to teach
pronunciation
Sound: /θ/
1. The teacher tells students a very short story.
Kathy is a young woman who was going to move a new
apartment. She needed some help so she asked her friends: Theo and Thelma. The move
goes well. And, what happened at the end???
2. The teacher shows students what happened at the end of the story in a sentence.
Kathy thanked both Theo and Thelma for everything.
3. Students realize the sentences is a little bit difficult to pronounce because there is a strange sound for them.
LENGTH
4. The teacher explains the sound: /θ/ = TH 5. In order to practice this sound, the
teacher show students three words:
WIDTH DEPTH
6. Then, the teacher shows a lunchbox and indicate:
7. The teacher shows a city map. Students can see streets, avenues, places, and people who are there.
Hathaway
theather
3RD
5TH
4TH
6TH
7TH
kathy
Thackery park
Theo
Dr. Thayer
Thorton way
South Avenue
North Avenue
Arthur
Smith bakery
Cynthia
8. The teacher gives some examples to make the exercise.
Where does Kathy live?
She lives on North Avenue.
Who lives close to Kathy?
Theo.
9. The students work with the partner for a short time.
10. Finally, the teacher shows the sentence (the end of the story which the teacher read in the beginning of the class)
11.The students can read this sentence easily because they were practicing the sound TH in several contexts.
Kathy thanked both Theo and Thelma for everything.
Sounds: /s/ - /ʃ/
1. The teacher shows these two pictures.
2. The teacher asks students:
What sound does the snake?Ssssssssssssssssss
What are Laurel and Hardy doing?They are saying: shhhhhh
What sound does the snake?Ssssssssssssssssss
What are Laurel and Hardy doing?They are saying: shhhhhh
3. The teacher explains the sounds with some examples.
4. Then, the teacher shows a flipchart with many words in a box using the sounds: /s/ - / ʃ/.
SHE CLASH SEE SHELL SUIT SHOOT
SHIP SEA CLASS SIP SELL BLUSH
SEAT CRASH SHEET SHOP SOME SHIFT
SAND FISH SERIOUS STONE PUBLISH STEP
FLASH SYSTEM BRUSH SAY STUFF FRESH
5. Two students go to the board. Each student has a flyswatter.
6. One student of the class says one word of
the box. The students who are in front of the
board put his flyswatter on the word quickly
and say the word aloud. The student who put
the flyswatter first wins the game.
Sounds: /s/ - /z/
1. The teacher shows the following pictures.
2. The teacher asks students: What sound does the snake?
Ssssssssssssssssss
What sound does the bee?Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
3. The teacher explains what the difference between these two sounds is. The teacher gives some examples.
4. Then, the students make a circle to start a game.
5. The teacher explains the game: “The
Blighted phone”.
6. The teacher has a piece of paper with many words. The teacher tells a student one word (any of them) in his ear.
7. Each student passes the word, (the student has to pronounce well in order not to blight the phone), and the last student tells the word aloud. (The student who starts the game changes in order that all students participate).
Words:
seek, zeal, sack, zoom, sun, buzz, surf, zap,
soup, peace, hers , gas, bus, nurse, juice, lose