Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 1 Comparing activities
Objective: to explore different types of activities focused on phonological features in a context.
Time: 25 min
Materials: board, CD and CD player
►Procedure: Say that you would like Ss to do a traditional pronunciation- focused activity as if they were first- year students and to discuss it in the light of the above criteria. Read out the following or play from the Audio CD :
Activity 1.
A) Sounds. You are going to practise a few sounds. Repeat after the teacher:
[b] (* = let the students repeat the sound) [b] (*) [b] (*)
be [bi] (*) [bi] (*) [bi] (*), ,
bar [ba] (*) [ba] (*) [ba] (*)
bore [bo] (*) [bo] (*) [bo] (*)
[bi-ba-bo] (*)[bi-ba-bo] (*)[bi-ba-bo] (*)
[bo-ba-bi] (*)[bo-ba-bi] (*)[bo-ba-bi] (*)’
Ask Ss the following questions and elicit a few random answers after each question:
∼ Do these combinations of sounds exist in an authentic context in this form?
∼ How are links between sound and meaning explored in this activity?
∼ How can this type of activity be improved?