Pronunciation Activities on DVD: Songs, Poems, Skits and Games
These dynamic, interactive videos are filled with skits, poems, songs , follow-along activities and group games that reinforce the concepts presented in the Pronunciation for Success Student Course. It can be used to augment a pronunciation course or with any speaking curriculum. Each unit begins with muscle-building or warm-up activities and then moves on to more interactive, fun activities to reinforce the concepts. Units can be played in sequence or activities can be shown separately. Students will have so much fun doing the activities that they will hardly realize they are practicing pronunciation skills.
Reproducible Worksheets
Many of the skit dialogues, student activities, lyrics and words are on easy-to-use worksheets that can be printed for students in the class.
Unit 1: The Basics
Awareness activities for open-mouth movements
Muscle building follow-along activities
Advice from other students
Unit 2: Enunciation of Consonants
Muscle-building for initial and final consonants
Tongue twisters
Chants, cheers and proverbs
Lip-reading activities
Consonant-cluster activities
Skits
Unit 3: Enunciation of Vowels
Muscle-building follow-along activities
Lip-reading activities
Rhymalogues and proverbs
Enunciation song
Unit 4: Stress
Word stress game
Sentence stress warm-up activity
Rhymalogues, chants, poems and proverbs
Original song
Skits
Contrastive stress exercise
Unit 5: Breathing, Volume and Thought Groups
Follow-along breathing activities
Skits for volume, breathing and thought groups
Song for breathing and thought groups
Unit 6: Intonation
Awareness exercise
Question intonation dialogues
Skits
Classroom games
Unit 7: Linking
Skits
Linking exercises
Jokes
Follow-along song
Unit 8: Small Talk
Follow-along small-talk techniques
Small talk skits for business, school and friends
Advice from fellow students
Unit 9: Compensation Strategies
Skits with compensation skills
Advice from students
Skits
Skits present realistic situations using professional actors. Each skit is short enough for students to use as models for their own role plays. Although the skits focus on pronunciation skills, they can also be used effectively for other speaking functions including:
Business Settings:
Setting up a meeting
Exchanging money
Making an appointment
Business small talk
Meeting a new co-worker
Student-Teacher Settings:
Questions about an assignment
Rescheduling an exam
Questioning a grade
Small talk in school
Clarifying a lecture question
Social / Other Settings:
Apologizing
Social small talk
Airport announcement
Radio call-in show
Emergency call