Stressing the Positives

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Stressing the Positives

• Helen Chapman

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Some things to discuss

• Do you think including pronunciation activities
  in lessons is important?
• How much do you use pronunciation activities in
  lessons?
• How do your teen classes feel about pronunciation
  activities? Why do you think that is?
• Are there any good pronunciation activities
  youve implemented in class recently?

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Activities and Ideas to Improve Pronunciation

• Word stress
• Sentence stress
• Weak forms and connected speech
• Vowel sounds
• The schwa

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Word Stress
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Word Stress

• A word grab
• Integrate into lessons when introducing
  vocabulary. Clap/ hum/use rods.
• Get students to note down new vocabulary in
  groups with different word stress.
• Use to recycle vocabulary from the previous
  class. What word am I clapping/humming?

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Sentence Stress
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Sentence Stress

• Listening for stressed words.
• After listening activity hand out the tapescript.
• Prediction of sentence stress before listening.

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Weak forms and Connected Speech
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Weak forms and Connected Speech

• Card shuffle.
• Counting dictation.
• Shark attack!

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Vowel Sounds
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Vowel Sounds

• Delayed feedback.
• Rhyming sounds activity buy

shy eye
lie boy
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The Schwa
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The Schwa

• Dictation speaking activity to introduce and
  practise the schwa.
• Schwa and sentence stress prediction activity.
• To recycle vocabulary, Ss identify the schwa in
  words studied in previous classes.

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Thanks a bunch to

• Jeanette, David, Linda and the rest of the IH
  Academia Britanica crew