Project #1 Pronunciation activity
Veronica AcuĂąa Alonso Calvo Veronica Mora
General Objective
Recognize pronunciation patterns.
Specific Objectives
Encourage the student to practice pronunciation.
Identify the different sounds in a minimal pair of words.
Improve student’s pronunciation and their production ability.
Description This activity can give students the opportunity to hear the difference between the minimal pairs1; recognize the different sounds in the word written on the card and clearly pronounce the difference when they have words with similar sounds. Then, each student has to find his/her group of words with similar sounds to produce a small paragraph and present it to the class. Procedure The teacher will put on the whiteboard six groups of minimal pairs [i:] [ɪ], [əʊ] [ɔ:], [n] [ŋ], [f] [θ], [ð] [z], [æ] [ʌ], [d] [ʤ]. Then, the teacher will give to each student a card with one word. So, each student has to find their minimal pair for each group (five people per minimal pair) when all the students are together they have to invent or produce a "rap" with the words they have in their group. And present it to the class. Students have 5 min approx. to complete the task.
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A minimal pair is a pair of words that vary by only a single sound, usually meaning sounds that may confuse English learners.