Pronunciation Play

This talk was part of a day of pronunciation talks organized by the IATEFL PronSig in collaboration with the ELT website Teachitworld. In my talk, we took a playful approach to the teaching of pronunciation. We saw how the playfulness may lie one the one hand in the materials we use, as in the case of word-play, rhymes, chants and so on, and on the other hand, in the tasks we set up, as in the case of games and puzzles. We tried out a variety of activities which take a playful approach across all areas of pronunciation, from individual sounds to various aspects of supra-segmental phonology, to pronunciation for listening purposes. We looked at how teachers may take these ideas and adapt them for different teaching points and different groups of learners. See the slide show and handouts below. Finally, here are links to some of the materials demonstrated in the talk:

Minimal Pairs Map

Turn Words Game

Minimal Pairs Street Plan

Sound and Spelling Puzzles

Nightmare Hotel

Word Stress Maze

Sentence Search (includes weak pronouns poem)

Sol tum pepper game

Tonic Stress Game

Yes Today Mondegreen Song