MARCH 2021
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Phonetics4Fun PHONETIC ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE
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Topic
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Short Vowels
Vowels
CLASSIFYING AND COMPLETING
Content: IPA short vowels Objective: Learners be able to identify and differentiate between short vowel sounds Audience: Beginners Instructions: Students must use a dictionary, app or website to look for a word that contains the vowel sound and write at least ten examples per column Optional: With audio or an oral dictation the teacher is going to read a list of words and the learners are going to write the word in the correct column
Strategies: Explain the vowels before doing this activity, provide students with sources to complete the assignment such as IPA sounds vowel sheets or apps, audio examples, and a dictionary that contains the transcription of the words
Challenges: Some students might have problems identifying the sound and the corresponding symbol.
Behavior: Students pronounce the words and with the help of the teacher or a dictionary find words that contain the required vowel sound Condition: to write at least 10 examples per column with a word that exemplify the vowel sound Degree: with 70% - 100% accuracy
CLASSIFYING AND COMPLETING Short Vowels
/e/
/æ/
/ʌ /
/ʊ/
/ɒ/
/ə/
Letter
Flat
Money
Cook
Rob
Alive
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VOWELS [I],[Ɪ],[E],[Ɛ],[Æ],[Ɑ],[O],[U],[Ʊ], [Ʌ],[Ə]
IDENTIFYING VOWELS Content: IPA short and long vowels The International Phonetic Alphabet contains 20 vowels sounds, long and short. Objective: Learners be able to identify and differentiate between vowel sounds
Instructions: Students must select the correct IPA Vowel sound, for this they
Audience: Intermediate - advance
Strategies: Review the vowels before
Behavior: Pronounce the words and select the correct vowel symbol
Challenges: Some students might have problems remembering the vowel symbols
Condition: to complete the entire worksheet
Some students could eventually mispronounce a word incorrectly and confuse the vowel sound.
Degree: with 80% accuracy
NAME
DATE
TOPIC
SCORE
SELECT THE CORRECT VOWEL Try to pronounce the word and identify the vowel sound, mark the correct IPA symbol for each word.
W O R D :
KEEP
W O R D :
[i:]
ɪ
[
BAT
W O R D :
[ ]
W O R D :
[æ]
[
ɑ:] MOTHER
W O R D :
[e]
ə]
[
LOOK
W O R D :
[
ʊ]
[
ɔ:]
FIT
W O R D :
[i:]
ɪ
[ ]
W O R D :
[
ʌ]
[
[
ɜ:]
ɔ:]
[æ]
[
TALK
ɑ:] EAT
W O R D :
[i:]
ɪ
[ ]
W O R D :
[
ʌ]
[
W O R D :
[
CUP
ɑ:]
BAR
ʊ]
[e]
ɜ:]
BOOK
[u:]
W O R D :
[
[i:]
LEFT
ə]
ɪ
[ ]
WHO
W O R D :
[u:]
[
ʌ] HAVE
W O R D :
[æ]
LOVE
NEED
W O R D :
[
ɑ:] WATCH
W O R D :
[
ɒ]
[
ɑ:]
TEAM
W O R D :
ɪ
[ ]
[i:]
W O R D :
[u:]
[
GLOOMY
ɜ:] PAGE 4
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PRONOUNCING VOWELS Content: IPA short and long vowels The International Phonetic Alphabet contains 20 vowel sounds, long and short. Objective: Students will practice how to identify vowel sounds and how to pronounce them correctly
Instructions: Students must record themself reading aloud the words using their phones and upload a video to https://flipgrid.com/ The teacher must create the room and provide feedback
Audience: Beginners Behavior: Pronounce the words correctly Condition: Record the correct pronunciation of the words
Strategies: Explain the vowels sound before the activity Challenges: Some students could eventually mispronounce a word incorrectly and confuse the vowel sound.
Degree: with 95% accuracy
TOPIC VOWELS
Record yourself! Try to pronounce the word and identify the vowel sound.
/ɪ/ ɪ
hit /h t/
ɪ miss /mɪs/ tip /tɪp/ pick /p k/
/e/
/i:/
pet /pet/
week /wi:k/
sent /sent/
feet /fi:t/
attention /
/æ/
/ʌ/
pat /pæt/
cut /k
flat /flæt/
ˈ
family / fæ.m
ə.li/
/ʊ/ ʊt/ book /bʊk/ c u s h i o n / ˈ k ʊ . ʃə n / put /p
/ə/ əˈ b a ʊ t / system /ˈsɪs.təm/ complete /kəmˈpliːt/ about /
əˈ t e n . ʃə n /
ˈ
ː
media / mi .di.j
ə/
/ ɑ :/
ʌt/ j u m p / d ʒʌ m p / cover /ˈkʌ.vər/
hard /ha:/ park /pa:k/ article /
ɑː . t ɪ . k ə l /
/ɒ/
/ ɔ :/
ɒt/ dog /dɒg/ hospital /ˈhɒs.pɪ.təl/
ɔ:k/ walk /wɔ:k/ A u g u s t / ɔːˈɡʌ s t /
pot /p
/ ɜ :/
/u:/
heard /h
ɜ:d/
ɜ:d/ / ˈ s ɜː . f ɪ s /
word /w surface
fork /f
boot /bu:t/ group /gru:p/
ˈ
ː ɪ əl/
beautiful / bju .t .f