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Warmer:
A short Quiz about English

1.How many letters in the alphabet?

a.26
b.28
c.30
2.How many sounds in (standard British) English[1]?
a.(About) 44
b.(About) 48
c.(About) 50
3.How many people in the world speak English as their native language?
a.About 250 million
b.About 300 million
c.About 350 million
4.Approximately how many people in the world speak English?
a.About 600 million
b.About 1 billion
c.About 1.8 billion
[1]
Received pronunciation

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 Answers to A Short Quiz about English

1. 26
2. 44
3. About 350 million
4. Approaching 2 billion

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Elements of phonology

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Elements of phonology

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 1. Study the learner errors. Match them with the correct versions and say
what area of pronunciation we are taking about.

Learner pronunciation Correct version

a I eat rai 1 Hanoi is an ImPORtant city

b Hanoi is an IMportant city 2 There were three soldiers.

c Who are you waiting FOR? 3 What do you want?

d There were three solyers 4 I eat rice

e What do you want? 5 HOW dya FEEL?

f MO-ney 6 MO-ney

g HOW DO YOU FEEL 7 WHO are you WAITing for?

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 1. Study the learner errors. Match them with the correct versions and
say what area of pronunciation we are taking about.

Your answers.
a. 4 - Dropping final consonants
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.

Answers to A Short Quiz about English

1. 26
2. 44
3. About 350 million
4. Approaching 2 billion

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 Pronunciation
1.How often do you teach pronunciation
in class?
2.Tell the others in your group some of
the things you do.
3.Which elements should we spend time
teaching? Why?

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 Stop the bus.
Write 3 words for each of the
following sounds;

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 The Phonemic Chart
Questions for different groups
1. Which are the difficult and which are the
easy sounds for students (and
teachers)?
2. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using phonemic
symbols/chart?
3. What are some simple guidelines or tips
for teaching sounds?
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phonemic chart

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 simple guidelines or tips for using
the phonemic chart/symbols to
teach sounds ?
1. ,rekəg'ni∫n 1. Recognition
2. dis,krimi'nei∫n 2. Discrimination
3. prə'dʌk∫n 3. Production
4. ,repi'ti∫n
4. Repetition
5. Modelling
5. 'mɔdliη
6. Analysis
6. ə'næləsis
7. Awareness
7. ə'weənis
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Activities to teach pronunciation?
groupwork
1. Dictation Lists
2. People Pairs
3. Pairs / Minimal Pairs
4. Backchaining
5. Finger Correction
6. Symbols
7. Games
8. Songs / Karaoke
9. Playing with the Tongues
10.Poems
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 Some Fun and Useful Classroom
Activities to Use
1. Tongue twisters (demo)
2. Shadow reading (self-reference)
3. Job pronunciation (self-reference)
4. Chants (demo)
5. Games √
6. Songs to teach a pair of sounds
Songs to teach an individual sound
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 Stand-Up Game
EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE

ANALYSIS ANALYSIS
AWARENESS AWARENESS
ECONOMICALLY ECONOMICALLY
IQ IQ

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 FINAL ROUND
PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY
INDISPENSABLE INDISPENSABLE
GEOGRAPHICAL GEOGRAPHICAL
HUMANE HUMANE

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 The Qualities of Stress
What are the qualities of stress?
Syllables are:
1. Louder
2. Longer
3. Different in pitch (usually higher)
4. The sounds are more clearly spoken
5. Accompanied by larger jaw, lip and other
facial movements
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 The Qualities of Stress
What are the qualities of stress?
Syllables are:
- Louder
- ???

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 DVD watching
1. Stop the bus √
2. Stress quiz
3. Hum stress
4. Sorting
5. Stand up √

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 Sorting activity
1. Have you ever done an activity like this
in class before?
2. What problems did you have (or might
you have)?
3. How could you do this activity without
using lots of bits of paper?
4. How could you adapt this activity?
5. Put the steps the trainer made in this
activity in chronological order.

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 steps made in this activity
chronologically
1. Cards are held up and the teacher asks
for examples of words that fit the pattern
2. Students are given cards for stress
patterns and cards for words
3. Students put them in the correct
categories
4. Students come to the board to and put
the words under the right stress patterns
5. The teacher checks and drills the words
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 Hum Stress
1. What materials do you need for this
activity?
2. How does Anthony make it more learner-
centred?
3. Would your students do this activity?
4. Anthony matches the hum stress to
words. What words could you use?
5. Could it be a team game?
6. How could you use dictionaries?
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 Suggested answers
1. Just the board, some words and the stress
patterns.
2. Demonstrates and then hands it over to the
students to do in pairs.
3. Monitor students carefully.
4. Use words that are familiar to your students.
5. Groups of 4 or 5 one reads out the other guess.
A point for each first called out correctly.
6. Students can check the stress with them.

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 Teaching Demo
• Imagine you were going to teach new sounds / stress
patterns or to revise them or revise vocabulary using
those in the pronunciation part from Tieng Anh 10 or 11.
Which activity / activities would you use?
• The sound(s) or pattern(s) will be assigned to you by
casting lots.
• Prepare the activity/activities (not more than two
activities) of your choice in 15 minutes
• Deliver your demo to the whole workshop with
observation and evaluation from trainers.
• Prizes will be awarded to groups of best demos.

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