Developing Speech and Language Skills - Noel's ESL eBook Library

Phoneme FactoryActivityGive the child a beanbag and tell them which picture to aim for. This works well as ateam game, with two children at a time aiming for the same picture. If they hit thenamed picture, they win it. This activity can be used with other sets of words.Action gameTarget sounds: ‘p’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ‘d’, ‘f’, ‘ch’, ‘st’Contrast: 0Words: beep, beat, bead, beak, beef, beach, Beast, beeResources: a stick for each person. The other actions are mimes, and needdemonstrating before the activity begins. Gradually add more pictures as the actions willbe hard to remember if all demonstrated at once.ActivityThe adult needs to familiarise the children with the pairs of words. Pictures could beused to help this. Do the actions together at first. Once the child has practised theactions a few times, the adult simply says one of the words and the child does theaction. The bee actions are as follows: (buzzes like a bee), beep (pretends to blow ahorn), bead (pretends to thread a bead), beat (beats on the table with sticks as if it is adrum), beak (makes a beak shape with the thumb and fingers), beast (roars like abeast), beach (pretends to swim or dig), beef (pretends to eat). Each action can becarried out a number of times. In this activity it is important to just say the word ‘bee!’and then ‘bead!’ and so on, so that extra clues about the word are not provided.110