Five quick pronunciation activities

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Five quick pronunciation activities
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
ELT: Pronunciation and spelling
Resource type
Starter/Plenary
Teaching ideas

These activities could function as warmers, coolers, fillers, awareness-raising tasks or just a bit of fun. They are suitable for a wide range of ages and levels and include games for practising phonemic script, an activity for raising awareness of syllable stress, a minimal pairs version of Chinese whispers, a simple but entertaining task for working on intonation and its meanings.

An extract from the resource:

2. Guess the word (A2–B2)

Say a sentence, but instead of saying one of the key words, hum its syllable stress pattern, for example:

I’m going to the DUM-dee-dee tomorrow night. (cinema)

Can you give me some dee-DUM? (advice)

Students get one point for guessing an appropriate word with the same stress pattern, for example stadium for cinema, and another point for guessing the exact word.

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I will be sure to use this resource, since I love focusing on pronunciation.
Thanks so much!

05/01/2015

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I will be sure to use this resource, since I love focusing on pronunciation.
Thanks so much!

05/01/2015

5