CĐ 20 PRONUNCIATION

SOME TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING PRONUNCIATION
Designed & Presented by: Vu Thi Hoang Mai, MA
Faculty of English
International Standard Program

Beginners
Grammar chants
Slap the board
Read and rhyme
Silent letters
 What do you think are the pros and cons of these activities? How would you organize such activities in your teaching?
Practice 1
Go to page 32 & 33, read the instruction of the activity Read & Rhyme
What do you think of the instructional language of the game provided in the textbook?
Do you wish to add or remove anything from the provided instruction? Please justify why you do so.
If you applied this activity in your class, do you think it would benefit the majority of your students? What would you do to make it better for your own class? Please share some information of your class and try conducting this activity as a sample.
Intermediate Level
Contextualized minimal pairs
Cartoons & drawings
Rhymes, poetry, & jokes
Drama
Kinesthetic activities
Reading aloud
Backchaining
Comparing the mother tongue & target language
Tongue twisters
Songs
 When do you think you would like to use each technique mentioned above?
Practice 2
You are going to listen to the song G’day G’day.
Spend about 1 minute looking through the lyric of the song, pay attention to the missing words.
Listen for the first time without doing anything to get the idea and the sounds of the song.
Listen for the second time and fill in the blanks with ONE word you hear from the song.
Now listen again and sing along to the recording if you like to. Repeat the words that you find difficult to pronounce.
G’day G’day
Refrain:
G`day g`day, how ya (1)…………, what d`ya know, well strike a light
G`day g`day, and how ya go-o-o-in`
Just say g`day g`day g`day and you`ll be (2)………

Isn`t it great to be an Aussie
Takin` a walk along the (3)…………
Lookin` in shops or buyin` a (4)…………
Stoppin` and havin` a yarn with people that you (5)……….

Down at the pub or at a party
Whenever you`re stuck for what to (6)…………
If you wanna be dinky-di, why don`t you (7)………… it a try
Look `em right in the (8)……… and say goo`day

Refrain
Now when Italians meet they all go (9)………
The blokes all like to (10)……… each other too
The Yanks invented "hi" "and see you (11)………"
While the Pommy will (12)……… your hand and say "how do you do"

Now watch out for a Frenchmen or he`ll (13)………… you
The Spaniards go for "Olah" and "Olay"
But in the (14)……… of the cockatoo, pole cats and the didgeridoo
When you meet an Aussie ten-to-one here`s what he`ll say
Refrain

It`s a (15)………… that you`ll hear across Australia
From Geraldton to Goulburn, Gundagai
It`s as dinkum as the Dingo and the Dahlia
And you (16)……….. it with a G, apostrophe, a D-A-Y

Refrain x 2
Practice 2 (cont.)
Answer the following questions:
What is the song about?
Guess the meanings of the bold words.
What can you learn about the world from the song?
Compare what you have learned with those in Vietnam.
Media & Technology in Teaching Pronunciation
Audio
Video
Computer software (Pronunciation Power)
Internet