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TASK 1
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES
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tourist
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a how
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paint
toy
a
pride
show
TASK 2
ACTION RESEARCH
Choose and carry out ONE of the action research projects outlined
below.
Project A
With a class, plan and teach a lesson which involves an introduction
to the phonemic chart. In your presentation of the project include
class profile, brief individual learner profiles, lesson plan, rationale,
materials, and reflections on the lesson.
In a class composed of Korean students, I first introduce the phonemic
chart with some basic vowel sounds monothongs and diphthongs.
In this method, my korean students realise how similar the English vowel
sounds are to their languages. For instance
Is the same as
Reflection:
TASK 3
Choose and use in a lesson one activity from Hancock.
Write a short class profile.
Give a detailed description of how you conducted the
activity, any adaptations you made of the material, and an
assessment of the usefulness of the material for your
students learning.
The lesson below is taken from
Pronunciation in Use Book, Unit 3:
Mark
Hancocks
English
basically follow the lesson plan by Hancock. I also include my own strategy
which is introduce the lesson by using the counterparts of the English
consonants in this way:
I let my students produce this sound by pressing their upper and lower
lips and making a sound without vibrating the vocal cords.
The students are asked to reproduce this sound by pressing their upper
and lowers together and making a sound while clearly vibrating the vocal
cords.
In addition, I also used minimal pairs:
Beginner:
BP
bar Pa
bay* pay
be P
bear* pair
berry perry*
bet* pet
big pig
blaze* plays
but putt*
butter putter*
buy pie
by pie
bye pie
cub* cup
Pre-Intermediate
band panned*
bat pat*
beer pier*
belt pelt*
bill pill
bin pin
bit pit*
blade* played
blain* plane
bland* planned
bore poor
bored pawed*
bought port
braid* prayed
bull* pull
lib* lip
pub pup*
tab* tap
Intermediate
banned panned*
bare pare*
base pace
beak* peak
bear pear
beat peat*
bee pee*
bitch* pitch
blain* plain
blank plank*
blot* plot
board pawed*
bow pow*
braise* prays
bride pride
browed* proud
burr* per
robe rope
Upper-Intermediate
bah* par
bead peed*
beak* peek
bier* peer
blaster* plaster
bleed plead*
blink plink*
bore pour
braise* praise
breast pressed
breech* preach
brick prick*
cab cap
rib rip
tribe tripe*
Advanced
batty patty
beep peep
beet peat
bi pi
blade plaid
bleat pleat
bloom plume
blunder plunder
blush plush
boar paw
boar pour
boo poo
braise preys
brat prat
brawn prawn
brig prig
brim prim
burr purr
butt putt
TASK 4
LABELLED DIAGRAMS TO SHOW:
The position the speech-organs move through in pronouncing the
word afterwards.
Transcription:
//
ftwrdz
syllable
/f/
/t/
//
/w/
//
/r/
/d/
/z/
TASK 5