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The document summarizes activities and games to help students practice pronunciation, including distinguishing between minimal word pairs that differ in a single sound. Some of the activities described are: 1. An "Odd One Out" activity where students group words with similar sounds except for one odd word out. 2. A "Run and Grab" game where students race to identify the odd word out in minimal word pairs displayed on flashcards or a board. 3. A "Sound TPR" activity where students respond with physical movements to different sounds in words. The document provides details on how to implement these pronunciation games and exercises in the classroom to improve students' comprehensibility and distinguishability of sounds.

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Handout Pronunciation

The document summarizes activities and games to help students practice pronunciation, including distinguishing between minimal word pairs that differ in a single sound. Some of the activities described are: 1. An "Odd One Out" activity where students group words with similar sounds except for one odd word out. 2. A "Run and Grab" game where students race to identify the odd word out in minimal word pairs displayed on flashcards or a board. 3. A "Sound TPR" activity where students respond with physical movements to different sounds in words. The document provides details on how to implement these pronunciation games and exercises in the classroom to improve students' comprehensibility and distinguishability of sounds.

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Department of Education

Region 1
Schools Division of Ilocos Norte
Division Seminar Workshop in Developing Pronunciation
Comprehensibility and Acceptability
October 26-28, 2016
San Nicolas Elementary School, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte

Resource Speaker: Mrs. Ritchelle Blanco Dejolde


Education Program Supervisor in English

Id like to introduce you to the pronunciation guide outlines in the following chart. There
arent too many characters that are different from the standard alphabet, but just so you
will be familiar with them, look at the chart. It shows 8 TENSE VOWELS and 6 LAX
VOWELS and semivowels
Pronunciation includes the articulation of individual sounds and the distinctive
features of sounds like voicing and aspiration, voice-setting features and stress and
intonation.
(Esling and Wong, 1983)
It also requires attention to the blending & omission of sounds and the effect of various
aspects of intelligibility.

2. Odd One Out

Put similar words into groups of threetwo with one sound, and one with a
different (although similar) sound. Or you could have groups of four or five which
contain the same sound, but only one thats different. For example:
meet, seat, sit (for vowels)
plays, pace, space (for consonants)

3. Run and Grab

You could have your minimal pairs on flashcards or you could simply write two (or
more) words at a time on the board.
Create two teams and then pair students up with a member of the opposite team.
In turn, each pair goes to stand at the back of the room, looking down an aisle at
the board.
When you call one of the minimal pairs out, the pair races to the front to touch the
correct word (the odd word out) on the board or grab the appropriate flashcard.
Students from the winning team could have a turn at calling the words for others
to run to.
4. Sound TPR (Total Physical Response)

Younger students especially enjoy any activity that involves movement.


Designate particular movements to particular sounds, as lively or as gentle
as you like. For instance, they could be sitting at their desks and raise a
hand, clap or stand up when they hear a particular sound, or they could be
standing in a space and jump or run in response to sounds.
As with Odd One Out , this could be reading- based or listening- based. They could
respond to words on flashcards by correctly pronouncing them and moving in the
prescribed way, or they could respond to the teacher (or another student) saying the
words

5. Dictation
Dictation is when someone speaks out loud and someone else writes it
down. Getting your students to write down what you say is good listening
practice for them, and when youre dictating minimal pairs they need to
listen especially carefully. There are a few different dictation activities you
can use.
Minimal Pairs DictationThe teacher reads out minimal pairs in a
particular order and the students write them down. Or the students could
have the words already written down and you could instruct them to put
marks, numbers, colors, etc. on particular words as you read.
6. Fruit Salad

This is generally a game where the players sit in a circle with one player standing
in the middle. The players have each been designated as a type of fruit. The
middle player calls a fruit, and all of the players whove been assigned that fruit
must rush to change places while the middle player tries to take one of their
chairs. Periodically they can call fruit salad! and then everyone must change
places.

Instead of using the names of fruits, you can designate words containing minimal
pairs to groups of students, and maybe choose another word for the fruit salad!
command.

For example, as the students are sitting in the circle they number off one by one
around the circle with:

pea, bee, pin, bin


Then the person in the middle will call pin! or another given word to get their
peers running around.

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