Theme: The Role of Games in Teaching Pronunciation to A1 Level Learners Group: Done by: Axmadova Iroda Checked by

Working with stress: -when students meet new words in class teacher marks the stress of those words, -teacher shows where the weak vowel sounds occur in words, draw attention to the schwa, -teacher chooses some short phrases which students are familiar with and writes them on the board, then she/he reads them aloud and draws a large circle under each stressed syllable and small circles under the unstressed syllables. Using the stress patterns students have to join pairs of phrases with the same stress patterns. -Teacher asks students to put words in correct columns depending upon their stress patterns,

Contrastive Stress Practice. Here is another fun activity. Have students write 10 FALSE sentences. They could be about anything, as only as they are not true. Next have students read the statements to their partner. The partner must correct each of the incorrect statements. For example: "Christmas is in July." "No, Christmas is in December ." My students really like this game, especially when the false sentences are outrageous!

To practice intonation patterns a teacher may highlight this:

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  Intonation Word or sentence intonation can be mimicked by humming. This will take the students' attention off of the meaning of a word or sentence and help them focus on the intonation.