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Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Classroom Activities for Learning the Clear Alphabet Here are some classroom activities for learning the Clear Alphabet. Simply choose a handful to build your pronunciation lesson. Of course, you could also use your own ideas and activities with the Clear Alphabet. The activities fall into the following categories: 1. Translation 2. Vowel Sounds 3. Schwa Sound 4. Consonant Sounds 5. Connected Speech 6. Syllable Focus 7. Sound Focus 8. Word Focus 1. Translation • Translate words and phrases (items) into English, e.g. one page, one column, or a fixed number. For lower-level learners: use the reduced list of 400 Elementary Words (from p.140), or the even shorter list of 100 Basic Words with the Clear Alphabet (p.185). • Say a word or phrase – your partner writes it with the Clear Alphabet; they say one – you write it with the Clear Alphabet. • Translate words into your first language, e.g. one column or one page. 2. Vowel Sounds • Choose an item and sound out loud each phoneme (sound) in each syllable; then sound out loud each syllable separately; then say the item. Pay particular attention to stressing the stressed vowel sound. • Circle the stressed vowel sound in an item written in the Clear Alphabet. • Identify the stressed vowel sounds in one set of items (e.g. one page) and put them into groups. Which sounds occur most/least frequently? How many are long or short? Focus on learning the most common vowel sounds. • Which vowel letters are most often reduced when we speak? Tip: look at the weak stressed syllables in a group of words and identify where sounds have been reduced, e.g. “to” is often pronounced t in a sentence, meaning that the oo sound has been reduced, and “for” is often pronounced f in a sentence, meaning that the or sound has been reduced. • Find x (5, 10, 20, or whatever) examples of assonance – words and phrases that have the same vowel sounds (stressed or not). This could be with a pair or group of words, e.g. “hair” and “wear” both share the same vowel sound: eir . Or it could be within the same word or phrase, e.g. the word “expensive” has two e sounds: e Kspen siv , while the phrase “fruit juice” has two oo sounds: Froo_ Joos . • Find x items which have sounds from a particular vowel sound group: short, long, or diphthong. • Find x items that have a stressed vowel sound which also appears in another syllable in the same item, e.g. roundabout steering wheel Raun d baut Stiy ring wiyl Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary English Banana.com 47
Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary Classroom Activities for Learning the Clear Alphabet Wi-Fi work experience Wai fai wer k Kspiy riyns • Using a given set of items, make groups of words which have the same vowel clusters in the normal spelling, then match them with their Clear Alphabet counterparts. Emphasise the point that while vowel clusters in the Roman alphabet vary wildly – with sometimes many different spellings for the same sounds – each sound always looks the same in the Clear Alphabet: Clear Alphabet spelling: er Some of the vowel clusters used to represent this sound in the Roman alphabet: her, stir, fur, learn, world, earl, purr, whirr, were, burgh, etc. The section Rhyming Words – Vowel Sounds and Diphthongs on pp.30-40 will be useful for this. See also from p.203 for more about vowel clusters. • Challenge SS to find words which are comprised completely of one vowel sound, e.g. I, are, hour, etc. There are 9 of this kind of word in the dictionary: a air are ear eye hour I or owe uh Eir ar Iy Ai Auw ai or Eu 3. Schwa Sound • Find x items that have a schwa sound (either the visible uh , or an invisible embedded schwa sound) and practise pronouncing them – paying particular attention to the schwa sound. • Look for x examples of an embedded schwa sound, which is a schwa sound that occurs naturally after saying a consonant sound, e.g. in the word “cinema” there are two embedded schwa sounds: Si n m . One occurs naturally when we pronounce the sound n and the other occurs naturally when we say m . • List x words which have visible schwa sounds, e.g. uh Gree uh Plai agree apply Tip: these will generally be words that begin with “a-” which means that there isn’t a consonant sound for the schwa to be embedded in. See pp.229-230 for a list of Two-Syllable Words where the First Syllable is a Schwa. • Look for x items with more than one syllable that do not have any schwa or short i sounds (known as the “2nd schwa sound”) – but a full vowel sound in every syllable, e.g. borrow download Bo reu daun Leud Talk a Lot Clear Alphabet Dictionary English Banana.com 48
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