1. Volunteer Workshop
Fall 2019

2. Talk to two people Describe your perfect vacation
What teaching topic are you curious about?

3. How to give directions Skit! (How not to give directions) Fewer words
Stick to the task

5. How do I correct errors? “Recast” - Example
Teacher: What did you do yesterday afternoon?
Student: We go to shopping yesterday.
Teacher: Oh, you went shopping yesterday afternoon.

6. How do I correct errors? Record the student speaking Either:
Listen together on the spot. Share two things the student did well and focus on one error.
Take the recording home. Write out the errors the student made, with corrections.

7. How do I correct errors?
When student is speaking - DON’T

8. Language Partner Workshop
Pronunciation!

9. Pronunciation
minimal pairs - words or phrases that differ in only one phonological element
focus on two sounds at a time
English Club
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Speech Language Therapy

10. Pronunciation - minimal pairs

11. Pronunciation - minimal pairs
How to practice
Print out words with pictures. I say, you say.
Introduce sounds, practice minimal pairs
Give student list of minimal pairs. Say one of the words, student points to the word you said.

12. Pronunciation Syllable Stress
Emma from mmmEnglish explains syllable stress

13. Pronunciation - syllable stress
Give your student words or sentences
Read the word/sentence
Have her/him mark the stressed syllable(s)
try it!

15. Pronunciation - syllable stress
Categorize words
give student a chart or write words on cards.
student categorizes words according to which syllable is stressed
try it!

16. 3 syllable words □ persistent □ guarantee □ instrument □ blindingly
□ horizon
□ exhaustion
□ volunteer
□ conference
□ guarantee
□ blindingly
□ cigarette
□ dinosaur
□ adequate
□ Japanese

17. Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds
What are voiced and voiceless sounds?
Have students touch their throats to note the difference between 'z' and 's' and 'f' and 'v' to demonstrate these differences.
Video 2 voiced and voiceless
Try it! Say these words -->

18. wanted ended started tended
Pronouncing -ed
past tense verbs that use -ed have different pronunciations
If verb ends in “t” or “d” add extra syllable
wanted ended started tended

19. Pronouncing -ed hoped laughed faxed washed watched liked
verbs ending in unvoiced sound, pronounce -ed with “t” sound
unvoiced sounds: p f s sh tch k
hoped laughed faxed washed watched liked

20. Pronouncing -ed played allowed begged
all other verb ending sounds, pronounce ed as “d”
played allowed begged
try categorizing past tense verbs (see handout)

21. Pronunciation Games Homophone Go-Fish Make cards with homophone pairs
Each player gets 5 cards
Player 1 asks player 2, “do you have a word that sounds like….”
Player 2 hands over the card, or says “go-fish” and player 1 draws card

22. Pronunciation Games Sounds Brainstorm Show student a “sound”
Student writes as many words with that sound as possible
How many words can you write with the “tch” sound in 30 seconds?

23. Pronunciation Game - minimal pair code
Make a table (8 cols, 10 rows) with 4 columns for words, 4 for numbers. 10 rows for 10 groups of words. Each row contains two minimal pairs
Talk about the phonetic differences between the two phonemes of each minimal pair
Inform the students that you are going to read the words of each row RANDOMLY. They need to number what they hear (or what they think they heard) from 1 to 4.
Now read the numbers from left to right as you ordered them.

24. Don’t Get Hung Up On Accent
The main goal is communication
You won’t eradicate accent, and it’s not the goal
Focus on pronunciation that makes it easier to understand your student

25. Comments and Questions
Have you practiced pronunciation with your student?
Which activities might you try?
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Thank you for attending!
*slideshow will be available on LIRC website