SOUNDS FUN! ROBIN WALKER Buenos Aires September 2013
SOUNDS FUN Mr Mapache
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SOUNDS FUN Priorities for Young Learners
• Consonants • Vowels & diphthongs • Word stress • Sentence stress • Rhythm • Intonation 3
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SOUNDS FUN Priorities for Young Learners
• Consonants = top priority • Vowels & diphthongs = focus on length • Word stress = important for NSs • Sentence stress = top priority • Rhythm = not so important (focus on stress) • Intonation = not important 4
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SOUNDS FUN Consonant & vowels sounds
BINGO tall five night how
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all
right nine brown
like call white
SOUNDS FUN Consonant & vowels sounds Level 0: Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: Level 4: Level 5:
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cat bat help pet got not start farm seek three all wall name white like walk ? ? ?
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SOUNDS FUN Consonant & vowels sounds Level 0: Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: Level 4:
cat bat help pet got not start farm seek three all wall name white like walk see/sea meet/meat sun/son like/likes dance/danced apple/apples bus/buses where/when thin/thinner Level 5: they/day three/tree ten/then saw/shore wash/watch is/it’s 7
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SOUNDS FUN Consonant & vowels sounds
‘Polish’ basketball
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SOUNDS FUN Word stress
a) Awareness building
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roberTO
pauLA
picaSO
buenos aiRES
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SOUNDS FUN Word stress
b) Practice i) Strange animals OOdawa / ooDAwa / oodaWA inGObila / ingoBILa / ingobiLA
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SOUNDS FUN Word stress
b) Practice ii) Foreign names
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SOUNDS FUN Word stress
quick 12
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visual
board
books
SOUNDS FUN Sentence stress
I love teaching English! I LOVE teaching English! I love teaching ENGLISH! I love TEACHING English! I love teaching English! 13
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SOUNDS FUN Sentence stress
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I’m from SPAIN.
Can you DO it?
Trafalgar SQUARE.
How OLD are you?
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SOUNDS FUN Sentence stress
Can you do it? Does she like me? How much are they? I’m from Spain. Trafalgar Square. What time is it?
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Can I help you? Dad’s at work. How old are you? Paul’s in France. She went to Wales. The fifth of May.
SOUNDS FUN Sentence stress
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I’m from SPAIN. Dad’s at WORK. Paul’s in FRANCE.
Can you DO it? Can I HELP you? Does she LIKE me?
Trafalgar SQUARE. The fifth of MAY. She went to WALES.
How OLD are you? How MUCH are they? What TIME is it?
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SOUNDS FUN Patience – lots of patience! ! Child
!... y es que tendremos que ir tempan... tempañisss... ! (pauses to check on the pronunciation) ! !tempaniiismo, si vamos a llegar para...! Mother !Tempranísimo.! Child !Trempanisimo.! Mother !Temprano. Temprano. (Intonation flat) ! Child !Trempano. Si vamos a ir...!
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SOUNDS FUN Patience – lots of patience! Child !Trempano. Si vamos a ir...! Mother !TemPRAno. PRAno.! Child !Trem...! Mother !Tem. TEM.! Child !Tem.! Mother !Praaano.! Child !Praano. – (pause) – Temprano. ! (pause as child returns to original line of conversation)! !Tendremos que ir tempano si vamos a llegar para...! 18
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SOUNDS FUN!
ROBIN WALKER robin@englishglobalcom.com