Sound-colour charts This is becoming a very popular technique in English pronunciation teaching. It was originally developed for teaching native speakers how to read and write. It was a spelling programme connecting letters to colours. The Sound-colour charts give a direct link between sounds and colours. The teacher trains students to vocal gymnastics, it means that students become aware of different lip positions, muscular movements for new sounds. Sound-colour charts replace learning phonemic alphabet and can be suitable for all age groups from small children to adults.
Question: Think and answer what sounds you will teach through imitative analytic and imitative methods? Exercises for teaching pronunciation Exercises for teaching pronunciation are subdivided into 2 types:
1. Listening exercises
2. Pronouncing exercises
Listening exercises are based only on listening and using printed text. Pronouncing exercises are aimed at developing learner’s pronunciation skills.
Task:
When you listen to pronouncing exercises clap your hands and when you listen to listening exercises exercise say “yes”
Listening exercises: 1. Listen to the line of sounds and raise your hand for sound [h];
2. Underline the word pronounced by the teacher;
3. Put lines for pauses in the sentences;
4. Listen to the sentences and clap your hands for negative one.
Pronouncing exercises: 1. Pronounce the sounds paying attention to the intonation;
2. Put stress and read the sentences;
3. Repeat the sentence and add the word given by the teacher .
2) Card 2
Make up a list of your favorite fruits and pronounce the words to make everybody feel how you like the items.
3) Card 1.
Teaching pronunciation
Write one answer for every question you have received by passing each time your paper to other students. Your answer must begin with the first sound in the person’s name (e.g. Mary - made a mess...). Continue doing this until all the blanks on all the papers are full. Do it 2 times.
WHO:___________________________________________
DID WHAT: ___________________________________
WHERE:_____________________________________________
WHEN: ______________________________________________
WHY:________________________________________________
4) Tongue twisters.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits.
Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
All sounds are divided into 3 groups :
1. Similar
Phonemes are alike native ones as for articulation and acoustic features:
[P] [B] [G]
[S] [Z] [M]
2. Partly similar
Phonemes which exist in foreign and native languages but they differ as for articulation and acoustic features [e] [i] [i:] [ l ] [t ] [d]
3. Sounds don’t exist in native language [0] [O] [r] [h] [w]
Exercises for teaching pronunciation are subdivided into 2 types:
1. listening exercises
2. pronouncing exercises
Listening exercises are based only on listening and using printed text.
Pronouncing exercises are aimed at developing learner’s pronunciation skills
TESTING • What is the role of phonetics in teaching pronunciation?
• What are the tasks of teaching pronunciation at school?
• What does content of teaching pronunciation include?
• What types of exercises are differentiated for teaching pronunciation? Name methods for teaching pronunciation.
• What difficulties occur in teaching pronunciation?
• Name three groups of sounds.
• What is transcription?
• What visual aids are used for teaching pronunciation?