Today we are going to have fun with pronunciation I'm going to show you fun
and effective ways that you can teach English pronunciation in your classroom
tomorrow and you can play them at home too so let's go
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV teacher speaker and your
personal English language coach learning and understanding English pronunciation
is essential for English students but pronunciation exercises in books can get
really boring can't they would you like some new ideas on how to present
pronunciation in the classroom in a fun way if so this video will be perfect for
you I'm going to share with you pronunciation games that you can do in
class if you're an English teacher or play at home if you have some friends
coming around to see it now pronunciation has traditionally not been
taught as much in class as say grammar and vocabulary so these games will
integrate pronunciation into your lessons in a fun way as well as being
effective now these games will help you and your students to be able to hear the
difference between the correct sound and the incorrect sound also to make the
correct sound and to help to recognize how to make the correct sound so without
further ado let's get started with my very first pronunciation game number one
rhyming pair games now this game is a pronunciation and a memory game which
works best if you divide your class into small groups or as a learner do it with
a couple of friends at home so you'll need to produce a set of cards for each
group with one word on each card the sets of cards should be made up of
rhyming pairs of words for example you could have a card saying Mouse a card
saying house or Die cry cook book wheat sheet players place all the cards down
face down on the table then the first player turns over two cards they say the
words on the cards out loud to perfect their pronunciation and then they say if
they rhyme now if they do and they say the words correctly they get to keep the
cards if the words don't rhyme they put the cards back down on the table face
down and then the next player does the same now the winner is the one with the
most cards at the end of the game now this may need some monitoring from you
as a teacher of course and if you have a really large class get a small group to
the front to demonstrate in front of the others
of course if you're doing this with a group of friends at home you need to
nominate one person to be judged to see if the pronunciation is right but try
not to argue too much now this is really useful for learners to see that words
can have a similar pronunciation although their spelling is different now
if you and your friend or your class are more advanced learners of course you can
change the words to more advanced things such as square air poor store lake break
some some so you can even do this with homophones
so words you know that have the same sound but a different spelling such as
some some through-through
so-so pear pear and so on and the other great
thing about this game is that it can be used for many levels of learners
beginners intermediates or advanced depending on the words you choose now
another great pronunciation game which is just as easy to do at home with
friends or with your class as a teacher is the tongue twister game now
this can work well as a warmer as well and help students to pronounce difficult
sounds in English what you do is you write on the board some tongue twisters
containing sounds that your students find particularly difficult it might be
the rough and the look for example so lucky radio listeners rarely lose long
letters or it could be surf and turf so for example tomorrow is the third
Thursday of this month or even Chuck and shut so I went to the beach to teach at
the car wash for cash now you could even divide your class
into teams and turn this into a competition each team nominates a
speaker to come to the front of the class and they have to say the tongue
twister out loud now if it's correct their team gets a point then they have
to say it again but faster again getting a point if it's correct and so on
getting faster and faster so the team with the most points at the end of the
game wins so at home on your own or with a friend you can have fun with repeating
these tongue twisters faster and faster and you can award points to each other
for getting it right now you can find more tongue twisters in my other video
on tongue twisters which I've put the link to above now you can add more
interest to this game by getting your students to create their own tongue
twisters which is my number 3 game creating tongue twisters start by
writing the following things on the board write your first name what did he
or she do where when and why because now you get your students into teams and
hand out a sheet of paper to each team the first student writes down 0.1 what
is his or her name then he hands the sheet of paper to the second student who
answers point 2 and then they hand it to them the third student for point 3 and
so on so when five people are written on the paper one reads it out and he could
read something like this Pablo put a picture in his pocket in
Paris on a perfect day because it was pretty oh dear that didn't seem to go
down bro over that child did it then like with the tongue-twisters game make
their tongue twister into a team game like the last one
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love to hear from you and boost your learning my fourth pronunciation game is
called stations now before your students can pronounce words correctly they have
to hear them correctly and recognize the difference in the sounds this game is
perfect for this it tests how well your students hear what you the teacher is
saying so designate each wall in your classroom with a sound depending on what
you're teaching of course so for example if you're teaching fricatives you could
label one wall as in see another walls as in zoo another Shh as in ship and
another measure get your students to stand in
the middle of the classroom then you say a word students will have to run to the
ball labeled with the sound they think they hear if they're correct is still in
the game if not they're out my 5th pronunciation game is a really good one
and I've called it but bet bat bit now this is a great pronunciation game for
practicing vowel sounds just select a list of ten one syllable words that
begin and end with the same consonant chooser set with the vowel sounds that
your students find the most difficult of course for example how about this but
bet bat bit bought bait beat bite bot boot or cut court cute cat kit cops cart
coat kite cooped now that was quite difficult even for me to say so then you
write the numbers 0 to 9 across the board and underneath each number right
one of the words now comes the fun part drill the words with the class until the
students can recognize and reproduce the different sounds correctly tell the
class that you're now going to give them a telephone number but instead of giving
numbers give them the word that represents the number you have written
on the board so if you want you to give them the number 0 7 8 give them the
words that represent the numbers on your list on the board so in
my example Oh 7/8 becomes but by bot of course you then need to do some task
checking perhaps in teams if you have a large
class and your students could then go round the class giving each other their
telephone numbers using the words in the same way now if you want this as a
competition the winner will be the student who has the most correct
telephone numbers in say five minutes endless possibilities for fun and
improvement of their vowel pronunciation now I have lots of other videos on my
channel made to support you as English teachers and learners of course which
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