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English Class Activities – Pronunciation Drill

Our dynamic dot stickers and progress charts can be used by English Teachers as a method of tracking progress and awarding merit to students learning English as a second language.

Class Type: English Pronunciation – Listening & Speaking

Class size: up to 20

Teaching Aids Required: Dynamic Dots and Progress Charts for each student

Method:

Write on the board the target pronunciation for the lesson and a set of similar sounding words, giving each one of them coordinates, for example:

	1	2
A	lat	rat
B	lice	rice
C	lack	rack
D	lest	rest
E	load	road

Let students know you are going to give them a listening and speaking drill which will be judged by you and the rest of the class. By the end of the lesson you should have them mastering these pron sets.
Demonstrate the pronunciation of each pair and the L/R concept in this example.

Listening Test 1:

Start the first listening test. Randomly read out 1 or 2 going from A to E. Have students write down what they hear.
Make sure to note down yourself which one you have said.
Ask students to swap papers and check answers with the person next to them.

Listening/Speaking Test 2:

Putting the winner(s) from the listening test on the spot, let’s say John got 5/5, ask John to stand up and read out randomly the same list. Have other students write down what they can hear John saying.
As the teacher, you should also write down what you can hear.
Have John reveal the answers (usually quite funny) and let the class discuss whether it was Johns wrong pronunciation or the other students bad listening that caused any discrepancies.

Listening/Speaking Test 3:

Depending on how students are doing with this set of pronunciation pairs. Have students form groups of 2 and perform this same test on each other.
Walk around the class and make sure students are pronunciating correctly.
If you find that a student has mastered the pron set, place a dynamic dot sticker on their progress chart for that pronunciation set.