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Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Learn the Sounds of English with the Clear Alphabet – Sample Lesson Plan Activity Type: Level: Skills: Class Size: Time: Aim: Materials: Introduction to the sounds of English with the Clear Alphabet Elementary – Pre-Intermediate Speaking & Listening; Pronunciation Whole group lesson, e.g. ten students in a group 1 hour To introduce the sounds of English with the Clear Alphabet; to lay the foundations for further study with the Clear Alphabet x1 Clear Alphabet chart handout (p.17) per student, whiteboard and pens; students have their notebooks and pens Note: this lesson focuses on teaching the vowel sounds of English, with only a little focus on the consonant sounds. This is because most of the consonant sounds can be guessed at, because they are encountered in English already (e.g. g , t , d , etc.). The vowel sounds are more difficult to learn from scratch, so we spend more time with them during this lesson, although we do also look at some of the stranger-looking consonant sounds (e.g. ng , tt , zz , etc.) towards the end of the lesson. Procedure: 1. Give out the handouts as students come into the class. This gives them time to look at them, comment (e.g. “On no!”), and get ready for the lesson. 2. Tell students that you’re going to learn the sounds of English with the Clear Alphabet. Write on the board: Vowel sounds Your language: ___ English: ___ Elicit how many vowel sounds there are in your students’ first language (or different students’ first languages for mixed nationality groups), and write it on the board. Make sure you know that answer before the lesson, e.g. in Polish there are 8 vowel sounds. Elicit from students how many vowel sounds there are in English (23). No doubt they will be surprised at the disparity between the two numbers. In English there are a lot of vowel sounds! Explain that lack of knowledge of English vowel sounds causes many mistakes in pronunciation. 3. Explain why you are doing this activity today. When I did this, I read a short text in Polish (which my friend helped me to write, because I’m an elementary rather than fluent Polish speaker). The text helped the students to understand the aims of the lesson. It went something like this (in Polish): For more fun worksheets, games, and quizzes log onto englishbanana.com now! Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary English Banana.com 41
Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Learn the Sounds of English with the Clear Alphabet – Sample Lesson Plan “If you know the phonetic alphabet, you know how to pronounce words. This alphabet gives you power. Power!” (Here I emphasised the word “power” (“moc”) in Polish for comic effect, as well as to make my point: “Da wam moc! Moc!” – “Gives you power! Power!”) “You will be able to speak better in English. Polish is a phonetic language. In general, you write like you speak.” (Here I stopped to emphasise this important concept. I pointed out that, for example “The letter ‘a’ in Polish is always pronounced a , and the letter “o” in Polish is always pronounced o . Pronunciation in Polish is generally easier than in English.” The students agreed. I asked them in Polish: “Is English a phonetic language?” The students grimaced and shook their heads, laughing, because no, of course English is most definitely not a phonetic language!) “English is not a phonetic language. We write differently to how we speak.” (I illustrated this by writing the following words on the board: “my”, “high”, “pie” and eliciting the pronunciations. I wrote each word phonetically and explained that in the dictionary there are two spellings for each word. The normal spelling is usually no help at all for working out the sound of the word. By contrast, the phonetic spelling gives us the sound of the word. You could use more examples to show that although English words can have exactly the same sounds, the spellings can be completely different. Students sometimes ask why this is, but the lesson’s too short to go into the answer in much detail, although you could explain that English has developed from many different languages over hundreds of years, which has helped to push spellings and sounds apart.) different spellings: my high pie same vowel sound: mai= Hai= Pai= 4. Once everybody understands why they’re doing the lesson, write on the board: 8 short vowel sounds | 5 long vowel sounds | 10 diphthongs Drill each group of sounds in turn. I asked my students to listen, repeat, and write notes. I read each sound loudly and clearly four times, with students repeating each time, and writing down notes about each sound to help them remember it. They were able to use letters from Polish to represent each sound. Give a good, clear model of each sound, or use the .mp3 file from the Talk a Lot website as your classroom model: http://tinyurl.com/nea-sounds Use examples of words that contain each sound, e.g. the ones on the handout, or different words that your students will know. For more fun worksheets, games, and quizzes log onto englishbanana.com now! Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary English Banana.com 42
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