SPEAKING: PRONUNTIATION GET SOME CLUES

TODAY IS PRONUNTIATION TIME

         Getting somo clues....

                         Tongue twisters and Jolly Phonics

To speak, it is very important to be understood, the pronunciation. The pronunciation is based centrally in imitation, but we can't do boring classes, or make English classes like repeation classes. So an alternative to those "kinds of repetition" is: apply to the pronunciation puns, maxillary jaw exercises, some theoretical explanation of concepts and lot of practice including tongue twisters.

After imitating the sound and learning the correct biology for producing it, now is the time to practice the use of that sound or sound pattern. You can use minimal pairs (pairs of words which differ in only one sound like mop and pop or pop and pep) to highlight one sound or phoneme that you are teaching. If you want to add a little fun to pronunciation class, try tongue twisters. There is no end to the tongue twisters you can find or write, and not even native speakers are good at them, so the pressure is off your students to perform flawlessly.  You can also teach the natural rhythm of English through songs and poetry. 

A tongue twister that I really love is: "I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines and where she shines sits".

I would like to speak also of a reality that is done in some bilingual schools to teach pronunciation and phonetics without using the typical picture of phonetic alphabet.

JOLLY PHONICS BOOK'S

JOLLY PHONICS METHOD

What is Jolly Phonics and whats's his relation to pronuntiation?

Jolly Phonics is a fun and child centred approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics and pronuntiation. 

With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve. The letter sounds are split into seven groups as shown below.

It's a very lovely method and very systematic and also it's an approachment to the music they are having fun but they are learning pronuntiation and phonetics too. This method have so many educational and fun materials apart from the sons about each letter of the alphabet.

A simple example for the first group of letter in the order that is teach:

How to teach with Jolly Phonics

Songs of the first group of Jolly Phonics teaching.

                                                     Have fun and have a good pronuntiation! Remember our students are listening to us everyday and everywher!

Ester C.