1. Pronunciation Pick & Mix
Amanda Avison

2. Aims Apply some tried and tested techniques to pronunciation
Some ideas which you might be able to use with learners straight away
Some tips and ideas to follow up

3. Some ideas to practice pronunciation in relation to
Vocabulary
Listening
Homework and follow on activities

4. Look at the yellow pages and the page of vocabulary on your table
Look at the yellow pages and the page of vocabulary on your table. Choose the activity which matches your table number
How does the activity work?
What are the students practising?
When could you use it?

5. Richard Cauldwell’s approach to phonology for listening

6. “What a day!” Student: I hear water
Sometimes students have problems recognising words they know
A few ideas to help students predict and notice what happens to words when they are spoken
Help students to unpick what they hear

7. Some ideas focussing on pronunciation to help develop listening skills
prediction
noticing
follow on work/ homework

8. Prediction Before listening to focus the listener
Work with sections from 5 to 10 seconds long
Use it for anything at all you've been focussing on

9. Example for prediction Activity 8 On the green sheet

10. Suggestions Activity 8
Jess, (1) you were talking before about mistakes that your Hungarian (2) students (3) always made, and how some students from the same country all make the same mistakes (4) again and again and again.
1 Which of these words do you think will be stressed?
2 Do you think ‘students’ will be pronounced in the same way in both positions?
3 Do you think this word will be stressed or not?
4 How do you think this phrase will be pronounced?

11. Noticing: Choose anything that’s relevant to your students
any features of connected speech eg schwas
intonation patterns
particular sounds
stepping stones eg Um, erm, well
Words and phrases with a certain stress pattern

12. Suggestion for noticing Activity 9 On the green sheet
Choose any aspect of pronunciation that you would like your students to focus on
Make a gap fill of the listening script
Once the students have completed the comprehension task, use the audio again for dictation

13. Suggestion for noticing Activity 10 On the green sheet
Do the following questions go up or down at the end?
1 Where are you going?
2 For a holiday?
3 Where exactly in Nicaragua are you going?
From English File Pre-intermediate 3rd edition

14. Example for noticing Activity 10
Which words in each sentence have the biggest stress?
Where exactly in Nicaragua are you going?
That sounds amazing.
Yes, I’m really looking forward to it.

15. Some tried and tested ideas for follow on activities or homework Activities 11 to 14 On the peach sheets

16. Activity 12 After working on contrastive stress
Give the students a number
The student writes a dialogue to include their sentence number with the correct meaning
The students can use these dialogues during the next class

17. Activity 13 After work on how to produce the sounds
Sounds that are difficult
Aim: practise careful speech and focus on the production of phonemes
Excellent for raising awareness
Motivational

18. Activity 14 Focus on connected speech Students work together
Builds confidence
Motivational

19. Activation – semi-controlled practice
Activity 15
Using a mill drill or mingle activity to practise pronunciation

20. Set 1 Discrimination between /iː/ and /ɪ/
Do you go to sleep or to slip at night?
(sleep /i:/)
Set 2 Discrimination between final consonant sounds (impact on preceding vowel)
In the winter do you wear a coat or a code?
(coat /t/)
Set 3 Practise using 2 different intonation patterns for the same words to indicate either ‘I was right’ or ‘I was wrong’
Are you a vegetarian?
No > I thought you were Yes > I thought you were