MOBILITY 3. Creative Teaching in the Secondary and Adult Language Classrooom. The Lake School of English, Oxford, the UK. Montse Bultó. Day 7

PRONUNCIATION

1. Work on individual sounds.

• Spelling vs pronunciation, e.g. cat / catch / caught: 3 sounds but different number of letters.
• Introduce the phonemic chart from day 1. Regularly write messages written with phonemic symbols and give a prize (treasure hunt).
• Use our body to become physically aware of certain phonemic features: Voiced vs unvoiced, /ɔ:/ vs /əu/ (hold nose to chin to see how the mouth opens for the 1st one).
• Minimal pairs: game where did you get to?

2. Work on individual words.

• Rules of pronunciation.

3. Work on connected speech.

• Intrusives /w/ (to England) and /r/ (her eyes) because they can’t pronounce two vowels together
• Connected speech. Useful for our stds to teach -ed and are. http://www.macmillaneducationapps.com/soundspron/.

• Intonation: accent is not a problem as long as pronunciation and intonation are correct. When we want to convey the message intonation is critical. It can change the meaning, e.g. really expresses a different message according to intonation. Ask a std to come up front back to his/her mates. Stds pronounce the word with a specific intonation and volunteer needs to guess feeling expressed.