Teaching pronunciation

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

CTJ IN-SERVICE

MINI-COURSE 1-2013 CLAUDIO FLEURY

PATRICIA FLEURY

/ˈtiːtʃɪŋ prəˌnənsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

/ˈwaɪ ɑ:r juː ˈhɪr?/

• You believe in the importance of good

pronunciation;

• You believe it’s possible to improve it;

• You’d like some ideas on how to help

your students with their pronunciation.

Why are you here?

/ˈwɑt ɪz prəˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən?/

What is pronunciation?

Looks familiar?

/ˈwaɪ ˈwɜːk ˈwɪð prəˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən?/

• Our students need to be intelligible;

• Working on pronunciation implies

working with improving listening skills;

• Communicating becomes more

effective.

Why work with pronunciation?

What would you do in the

teacher’s place?

PHONETIC SYMBOLS

/fəˈnetɪk ˈsɪmbl̩z/

• There are more sounds than letters in

the English language;

• There’s a bad correspondence

between spelling and sound;

PHONETIC SYMBOLS


• Teachers can help students visualize

the difference between what they are

saying and what they should be saying

(WYSIWYG!)

• Knowing phonetic symbols allows

students to become more independent

(eg; student can look up new words in

the dictionary);

PHONETIC SYMBOLS


/ɑ:ˌtɪkjuˈleɪʃn̩/

ARTICULATION

CONSONANTS

/ˈkɒnsənənts/

MANNER AND PLACE OF THE ENGLISH CONSONANTS

BILABIAL LABIO- DENTAL

DENTAL ALVEOLAR PALATAL VELAR GLOTTAL

STOPS: breath is fully stopped and

then released

voiceless / p / / t / / k / [ ʔ ]

(Britain)

voiced / b / / d / / g /

FRICATIVES: breath causes

friction

voiceless / f / / θ / / s / / ʃ / / h /

voiced / v / / ð / / z / / ʒ /

AFFRICATES: breath is stopped

and friction follows

voiceless / tʃ /

voiced / dʒ /

NASALS: breath is released through

the nose voiced / m / / n / / ŋ /

LIQUIDS

breath does not cause

friction

lateral

voiced

/ l /

retroflex / r /

flap [ ɾ ]

(water)

SEMIVOWELS: mouth movesa

from one position to another

voiced / w / / y /

What are some

problem areas

our students face

which involve

consonants?

• / s / and / z /

• -s endings

• / ʃ /, / tʃ /, / ʒ /, / dʒ /

• -ed endings

• /w/ and /j/

/ˈprɒbləmz wɪð

ˈkɒnsənənts/

• / θ / and / ð /

• / m /, / n /, / ŋ /

• / r / and / h /

• final / l /

/ θ / and / ð /

Three free throws.

p.59 symbols

SUBSTITUTIONS

initial / s / x / θ / initial / t / x / θ / initial / f / x / θ /

sank thank tree three fought thought

sink think tick thick fret threat

sin thin true through free three

final / s / x / θ / final / t / x / θ / fianl / f / x / θ / mass math tent tenth ouf oath pass path Matt math deaf death

mouse mouth boot booth miff myth

/ d / x / ð / day they

dough though doze those dare there

The thirty-three thieves thought that they

thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds

thumped Mr. Thurber.

There those thousand thinkers were thinking

where did those other three thieves go through.

Image: Godoy, Sonia et al. - TEACHING PRONUNCIATION FOR BRAZILIANS – DISAL, 2006

/ m / x / n / cam can

same sane beam bean skim skin

/ n / x / ŋ / sin sing

thin thing banned banged

ran rang

/ m /, / n /, / ŋ /

/ m / home gum room from some cream lamb autumn

/ n / fine man fin friend

pain one plane seven

/ ŋ / king bang rang wing

young tang song wrong

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

/ r / and / h /

/ r / x / h / rose hose

rabbit habit rare hair hate rate

runny honey rope hope rut hut rug hug

1. Look! There’s a hat / rat under the bed.

2. Hide / Ride the bicycle.

3. How do you know your height / you’re

right?

4. Can you smell that old hose / rose?

5. This is a hound / round dog.

6. That’s an old habit / rabbit.

7. Home / Rome is the best place to be at

night.

8. I prefer the head / red post.

9. Wow! This is really hair / rare.

10. He hated / rated his performance.

Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

final / l /

final / l / so soul

bow bowl mow mole coat colt road rolled go goal

sewed sold code cold

1. / skuːl /

2. / ˈdʒuːəl /

3. / tʃaɪld /

4. / ˈlɔɪəl /

5. / smɔːl /

6. / ˈniːd(ə)l /

7. / ˈhɒspɪt(ə)l /

8. / hoʊl /

a. the place where you go

when you’re sick

b. complete

c. you use it to sew

d. not big

e. a precious stone

f. a place where you study

g. not an adult

h. used to describe a dog

/ s / and / z / / s / x / z / ice eyes

spice spies loss laws

price prize face phase

loose lose once ones race raise Miss Ms. niece knees

1. Could you tell me what the price / prize is?

2. This is the first face / phase we’ve discussed.

3. Can you race / raise your brother?

4. Everyone could see the ice / eyes.

5. I want to get those once / ones. / s / x / z /

abuse to abuse use to use

excuse to excuse house to house close to close

final -s

SUPER ZEBRA – Shout SUPER if the final sound of the

(plural of the) words is /s/;

shout ZEBRA if the final sound is /z/

DOWNPOUR RESERVATION PAYMENT

SYMPTOM HEIGHTS STATISTICS

MUSICIAN CASINO KEY

Raise the correct pronunciation symbol according to the

3rd person singular ending sound.

APPOINT ARRANGE BURY

CATCH HATE NEED

PICK RAISE ROB

TALK WAVE WATCH

/ s /

/ z /

/ Iz /

/ ʃ / and / tʃ /

initial / t / x / tʃ / two chew

tease cheese tip chip tin chin

tear cheer tick chick

final / t / x / tʃ / art arch

beet beach cat catch eat each

Pete peach bent bench

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu

choose the shoes he chews?

Out in the pasture the nature

watcher watches the catcher, while

the catcher watches the pitcher who

pitches the balls. The pitcher

pitches, the catcher catches and the

watcher watches.

/ ʃ / x / tʃ / share chair shore chore shin chin shop chop wish which cash catch

/ ʒ / and / dʒ /

/ d / x / dʒ / D G

dean Jean deep jeep dig jig dim gym aid age bad badge

/ ʒ /

genre Asia

casual usually

television beige

garage measure

vision Parisian

treasure Indonesia

Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig

Doug's garden?

Jeff enjoys orange juice and jam.

Bungee jumping in January.

/ t / and / tʃ /

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/ t / and / tʃ /


/ ʃ / and / tʃ /


• Raise your RIGHT hand if the past tense of the

verb you hear ends in a /t/ sound.

• Raise your LEFT hand if if the past tense of

the verb you hear ends in a /d/ sound.

• Raise BOTH hands if the past tense of the

verb you hear ends in an /id/ sound.

-ed endings

landed ended aided

waxed cuffed pushed

craved spoiled teethed

sentenced marked itched

listened answered questioned

founded cited quoted

/ d /

/ t /

/ Id /

-ed endings

TELL THE STORY

Cinderella The Three Little Pigs Snow White and the

Seven Dwarfs

die construct look

raise want ask

invite huff clean

prohibit puff work

appear destroy discover

dance climb offer

escape place faint

live play marry

/ d /

/ t /

/ Id /

/ w / and / j /

/ˈwəns ˈjuː pərˈsweɪd ˌjʊrəˈpiːən

ˈwʊmən tə ˈwer ˈsəm(p)θɪŋ

ðə ˈrest əv ðə ˈwərld wəl ˈfɑloʊ/

/ y / x none pure poor use ooze year ear yeast east knew gnu Hugh who

ya-ye-year yield yikes

yippie* yip Yiddish yearbook

/j/ x none new student duty consum

enthusiasm

/w/ would wood

one once woman wolf womb wool

Yanking yellow yo-yos. *Youth International Party

VOWELS

/ ˈvaʊəlz /

/ ˈpleɪs əv ɑ:ˌtɪkjuˈleɪʃn / Place of articulation

What are some

problem areas our

students face

which involve

vowels?

• /u:/ and /ʊ/

• // and /3r/

• /eI/ and /ou/

/ ˈprɒbləmz wɪð

ˈvaʊəlz /

• /ə/

• /i:/ and /ɪ/ • /æ/ and /e/

the Schwa / ə /

http://bbc.in/TcYysY

/ i: / and / ɪ /

The short / I / is

more similar to

“ê” than to “i” in

Portuguese.

/i:/ English

/i/ Portuguese

/I/ English

ê Portuguese

/i:/ and /I/

beat bit cheap chip steal still eat it peak pick heel hill feet fit

least list

http://bit.ly/TcZsp6

Hint p. 170 close up

p. 173 ex. 3 16

ex 3 18

parts of the body

/fɪŋgər/ /niː/

/rɪst/ /fiːt/

/ɪr/ /hɪp/

/ʃɪn/ /hiːl/

/tʃiːk/ /lɪp

/tiːθ/ /tʃɪn

/ æ / and / e /

/i:/ /ɪ/ /e/ /æ / beat bit bet bat bead bid bed bad deed did dead dad keen kin Ken can

/æ/ sad fat man lack black rat chat bad

http://bit.ly/Td5p5u

http://bit.ly/Td5xCd

Open your mouth

to say a but say é

/æ / long /e/ short tan ten pan pen bad bed sand send man men

/ u: / and / ʊ /

/u:/ flew soup clue choose fruit juice view university

The Portuguese

“u” is similar to /u:/

in English, but not

as long.

/u:/ /ʊ/ pool pull fool full suit soot Luke look

who’d hood

human crooked furious

good lose woman

fuse hook student

tomb butcher wolf

/ ʌ / and / ɜ: /

/ ʌ /

country pronunciation

won love

brother tongue

mother culture

/ ʌ / is the stressed

Schwa

/ ʌ / + / r / = / ɜ: /

/ ɜ: /

circle work

word bird

world firm

search turn

mother tongue

some courage

the other firm

Search for the cup.

There’s just enough blood.

girrrr – l

worrrr – d

worrr – l – d

currr – l

pearrrr – l – s

/ ei / and / oʊ /

Portuguese English

Roma Rome

omite omit

filé filet

balé ballet

the silent e rule

a - /ei/ make

e - /i:/ scene

i - /ai/ like

o - /oʊ/ bone u - /ju:/ use

exceptions

/ ɪ / - live – give – since

/ ʌ / - come – done – love

/ ɔ / - gone

double consonants

/ai/ /ɪ/

ride ridden

write written

bite bitten

cut cute

hop hope

mat mate

bit bite

pop Pope

snack snake

the final y rule /ɪ/

/ei/ /oʊ/

lazy nosy

navy cozy

baby pony crazy rosy

vowels


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Godoy, Sonia et al. - TEACHING PRONUNCIATION FOR

BRAZILIANS – DISAL, 2006

Kelly, Gerald - HOW TO TEACH PRONUNCIATION –

Longman, 2004

Underhill, Adrian – SOUND FOUNDATIONS – Heinemann,

1994

Roach, Peter – ENGLISH PHONETICS AND

PHONOLOGY – CUP, 1991

Orion, Gertrude – PRONOUNCING AMERICAN ENGLISH

– Newbury House Publishers, 1987

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

CTJ IN-SERVICE

MINI-COURSE 1-2013 @claudiofleury

PATRICIA FLEURY

/ˈtiːtʃɪŋ prəˌnənsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

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