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Preface : To The Teacher Chapter One : Warm-up Activities Contents Chapter Two : Words, Phrases and Sentences Chapter Three : Grammar and Speaking Chapter Four : Interactive Role-Play Chapter Five : Traveling and Touring Chapter Six : Finding the Right Words Chapter Seven : Fables, Tales and Stories Chapter Eight : Talking Tasks Chapter Nine : A Bit of Business Chapter Ten : Pronunciation Chapter Eleven : How to Improve Your Diction Chapter Twelve : Sound and Rhythm Chapter Thirteen : More Pronunciation Practice Chapter Fourteen : Curriculum Development . . . . . . 3
Preface The materials in this text were compiled over a period of ten years, in Thailand from 1993 to 2003, while I was teaching at The Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University and later at the Department of Language at KMUTT. I started a file of speaking activities because there were too many tasks and ideas to keep in my head, and I wanted to be able to access them when I needed them in the future. Eventually, the file grew thicker and thicker, until it was big enough to become a book. The speaking activities in this text come from a variety of sources: A lot of the tasks sprang from my own imagination, stimulating me to go into the classroom, feeling motivated by the freshness that accompanies a new inspiration and being eager to share it with my students. This could be compared to cooking on impulse rather than following a set recipe. I got many additional ideas from talking to fellowteachers about what worked for them in their classes. I even picked up some good examples from the handouts of various courses that I was required to teach, all of which taught me a lot of time-proven tricks that almost always work. Curiously, when I told my Chula students that I was compiling a collection of speaking tasks for publication, they responded by getting involved and suggesting ideas of their own. I would often divide the class into groups of five students and tell them to make up a dramatic scene or dialogue or game, or whatever else they wanted to try, and come back and perform it in the next class. Many of these activities were effective learning tools and have been included in the book. For many years, I also facilitated English programs for Arthur Andersen, SGV Na Thalang, KPMG, Yontrakit Group, Amari Group, and Bank of Ayuddya, TOT, DEP and TAT, and other organizations, in Thailand, for which I had to keep creating new materials, so that it has become second nature for me develop speaking activities for the classroom. One final thing that I would like to add is that, at KMUTT, I learned a great deal about student-centered, self-access, task-based learning, and curriculum development, working with Richard Watson Todd of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, so it follows that much of what you see in this book also illustrates the Theory and Practice of Curriculum Development as it was being created at that time in the International Program at KMUTT. David Holmes Bangkok, 2003 4
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Page 7 and 8: The sad thing about our conference
Page 9 and 10: Introductions Since this is a speak
Page 11 and 12: Remembering Introductions Another w
Page 13 and 14: Ball Game This game came from the g
Page 15 and 16: Simon Says ... This is a game that
Page 17 and 18: I Spy with my Little Eye... This is
Page 19 and 20: Hangman This is another children’
Page 21 and 22: It’s in the Bag Find a durable pl
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Page 25 and 26: Twenty Questions Think of a word th
Page 27 and 28: The One-Minute Game This game has t
Page 29 and 30: Drawing a Pie Chart to Tell About Y
Page 31 and 32: Get the Class to Make-up a Story .
Page 33 and 34: Find Someone Who... Has never been
Page 35 and 36: Find Someone Who... Ate steak last
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The Numbers Game Everybody must thi
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What Talents Do We Have in Our Grou
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Alone on a Desert Island Imagine th
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Thinking of Related-Words Divide th
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Chapter Two : Words, Phrases and Se
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Obeying the Law Get the students to
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More Noises What noises do you asso
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Similar and Related Words Get four
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Are You a Fruit? Everyone in the cl
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Draw Pictures and Guess the Words T
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Write Sentences for These Words Fin
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Colors and Associations In western
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Who Can Think of The Most Words wit
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Hints for Guessing Words Put the st
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Concordance When we make a mistake,
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Things That You’re Required to Do
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Which Worse and Why? Another variat
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Comparing People to Animals In the
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Talking About the Old and the Young
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Sign Language Using Gestures Learn
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Which Word Doesn’t Fit In? Below
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Job Descriptions Below are the name
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Write out Words Related to... Divid
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The Last Letter of the Last Word Si
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Do You Have a Problem? What is Your
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Tell Us Some Things That You Dislik
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What Do Teachers and Bosses Like? T
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Making Toys from Trash In many area
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How to Build an Igloo* Divide the c
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Chapter Three : Grammar Tasks and S
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Irregular Plural Nouns Read out the
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Insert the Appropriate Verb Forms F
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What Do You Think? This is a questi
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How Long Have You Been A Student He
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Have You Ever...? If someone asks y
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What Did You Used to Do When You Wh
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What Would You Do If...? There are
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Using the Relative Pronouns: Who, T
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Some and Any, Somebody, Anybody, So
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Practicing Question Tags Look at th
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Chapter Four : Interactive Role-Pla
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Some Easy Chit-chat If you could gi
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Telephone Role Play Telephone and d
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Making an Appointment with the Psyc
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Write the Dialogue for a Telephone
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Vocabulary Related to Giving Direct
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Explaining How to Get There Work in
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This is Your Captain Speaking… La
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Being Picked-Up At the Airport Ther
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Traveling and Asking for Things Exc
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Nobody Likes to Have to Complain, B
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Remember that your instructor is th
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International Departures : Taking A
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Peugeot After-Sales Service Telepho
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A Foreign Customer Goes to the Bank
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How About Changing Some Traveler’
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Extending and Answering Invitations
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Extending and Answering Invitations
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Dining Out at the British Club You
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Chapter Five : Traveling and Tourin
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Thailand Quiz Answer each question
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Bangkok from
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Talking About Thai Food Here are so
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Currency Exchange When it comes to
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Continents, Nationalities and Langu
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If it’s Tuesday, We Must Be in Be
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Islands Match the island with its d
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Hello, I’d Like to Book a Flight.
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Where in the World Are We? Read the
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Chapter Six : Finding the Right Wor
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“A” is for Abacus. “B” is f
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Word-Hints and Gestures Put the stu
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Preferences Number your preferences
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What Would You Least Prefer? What k
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Things You Love to Do and Things Yo
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Some Reasons Why People Go For Trea
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Alphabet Word Game The teacher call
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Guessing With Your Back to the Wall
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Up and Down The words in the list b
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What is the Earliest Thing that You
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When I’m Sixty-Four When we’re
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Bei
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Hobbies and Pastimes Often, when we
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Annoyances and Irritations Write a
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Things You Do in Order To Be Able T
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If You Were Head Of State For A Day
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What Do You Do with Your Body Parts
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What Do You Dream About After You G
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Write a List of Sins You Ought Not
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Planning a Party You and your frien
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At Your Graduation Ceremony Work in
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List of Wedding Presents In the USA
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Consumer Products You are thinking
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Department Stores Department stores
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More Lists You are going away for a
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Chapter Seven : Fables, Tales and S
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“Well, all right, if you put it t
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A Japanese Zen Story Once a very lo
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Two Old Ladies Go to London This st
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The Old Sea Dog Once in Barcelona,
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A Grotesque Tale of Aegean Greece O
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oatman was waiting, she had procure
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Chapter Eight : Talking Tasks In th
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Let’s Do a TV Talk Show A well- k
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Valentine’s Day, February 14 th W
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Pair Work Dialogues This is a task
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What’s in and What’s Out? Many
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What Would You Do in These Dilemma
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What About Sex Before Marriage? Opi
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Making a Statement and Getting a Re
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Student Survey About School, Teache
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Teacher Evaluation Form Read the st
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Good Personal Characteristics What
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What Qualities Do You Seek in Marri
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Computer-Dating Service Please fill
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Are You Physically Fit? At what age
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Are you Physically and Mentally OK?
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Discussion Topics Consult the sugge
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Giving Reasons Why Why does an obje
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The Big Debate Let the students for
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Some Mistakes to Avoid When Giving
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What Happens When Presenters Feel T
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More to Remember About Using OHP Gr
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Presentations on Thai Life, Customs
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News Program Presentations It’s a
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Table Talk You may have heard about
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Interactive Role Plays Let the stud
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Problem-Solving Most of the tasks i
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Chapter Nine : A Bit Of Business A
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Mind Your Manners Sometimes, a cust
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Apologies in the Workplace Nobody l
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Apologize in the Following Situatio
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Saying No Politely 1. A secretary w
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Try Pronouncing These Computer Term
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Some Contract and Agreement Languag
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Saying Geographical Names the Engli
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Evaluating Your English Often, when
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What Do You Say in These Situations
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Chapter Ten : Pronunciation There i
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Simple Vowel Sounds We can often, b
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Practice Saying These Vowel Sounds
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Difficult “S” Sounds and Syllab
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Short and Long Vowels The teacher s
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Short and Long Vowel Sounds Short
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Follow the teacher’s example. Cli
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Hold the Sound of the Final Letters
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Read in horizontal lines. Hold he
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Continue Reading Horizontally Row b
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Let’s Repeat Some More Final “S
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Read the Following Examples Aloud.
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Read and Pronounce These Words and
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Some “A” Sounds An “a” soun
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Open “EE” Sounds The open “ee
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Some “O” Sounds initial middle
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Just practice the sounds of the wor
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Hard and Soft “C” Sounds Say th
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Some Dreadful “D” Sounds initia
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Frightful “F” Sounds initial in
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Jarring “J” Sounds Not all “j
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Lovely “L” Sounds initial inter
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More Final “L” Sounds Just repe
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Magic “M” Sounds initial intern
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More Final “N” Endings Batten A
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Practice Particular “P” Sounds
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Say These Sounds r s t v Racist Sta
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Random Internal “R” Sounds Gett
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Random “R” Endings Read horizon
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More Random “S” Sounds Read hor
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Repeat These Final “T” Sounds H
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Beast East Least Increased Detect I
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Write Sentences for These Words and
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Read vertically down each column. V
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Exiting “X” Sounds Note that ma
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Zesty “Z” Sounds A lot of word-
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Four Word Combinations Pronounce th
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Repeating Sounds to Create a Desire
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Choose Yourself an Anglo-Saxon Stag
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James Janice Johnson James Jerry Je
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Allusions An “allusion” is a re
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Using Initial, Internal and Final S
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Alliterations Reading and talking a
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Two Words Joined by Conjunctions Th
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Addictive Alliterations Some people
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Word Sequences You should always le
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Cultural Allusions Practice pronunc
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Accented Syllables Read the columns
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Read out these Words Stressing the
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Chapter Thirteen : More Pronunciati
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B Back into action Back-breaking la
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D Dawn of civilization Dastardly be
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F Face the challenge Fabricated exc
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H Ham and eggs Hamburger Heaven Han
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J and K There are not so many “J
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Maddening crowd Maid of honor M Mad
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O On the level Off on your own On t
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Inquisitive squirrels Quack doctor
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S Safe landing Satisfied customer S
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U/V Ultimate question “V” for v
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XYZ Xenophobic fever Yacht harbor X
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Read these Sentences Aloud After Yo
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Read These Sentences Aloud and Get
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Chapter Fourteen : Curriculum Devel
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Play the VDO clip again for SDS to
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without looking at the clipping but
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SDS should also hand in a written c
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6. Reading Opinions Aloud to the Cl
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T gives the students a social probl
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Week 1 Introduction: goals, aims, g
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SS not consulting can be doing Agon
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Writing for The E-Zine Allow SDS co
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16 Topics Research Teamwork WWW 301
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20. Give presentation Written Repor
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17 Rehearse for presentation Indivi
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