Pronunciation lesson plan

PRONUNCIATION LESSON PLAN WARM UP & PRESENTATION We will teach the students the differences between the “ e” and “ ae” phonemes by using the minimal pairs: /ae/ /e/ bad bed ban Ben dad dead man men gas guess cattle kettle marry merry We’ll start our lesson by asking the students how they are and how their weekends were. We will say: “ Good afternoon my dear students. How are you today? Did you sleep well? I couldn’t sleep well.

I had a bad sleep yesterday because my naughty children jumped on my bed in the middle of the night! ” Then while I am showing the differences between them with pictures and my gestures, I will repeat the minimal pairs slowly at least 2 times. After I explain the differences between these two phonemes, I will use the words in meaningful sentences. For example: “ The witch is bad” “ This is my bed” “ My mother will ban smoking in our house” “ His name is Ben” “ He is the child’s dad” “ The pink bunny is dead” “ There is a man in the picture” “ There are 2 men in the picture” “ My car needs some gas” “ I guess you are listening to me” “ Old McDonald has cattle” “ He gave me a ketle” “ Hayri wants to marry Hayriye” “ I wish you a merry Christmas” REPETITION The students will repeat after us chorally, in groups and then individually. EXERCISES 1) We will make two groups of the phonemes. /e/ phoneme will be A and /ae/ phoneme will be B.

. me” (the students will say “ marry”) “ Canada will…………….. smoking” (the students will say “ ban”) GAME We will play a game. It’s name is “ Bingo”.

For each student, there will be cards which has 20 different words. We will say 20 random words all of which exist in only one of the cards and the student who has found all od the words in his card will say “ Bingo! “. But the students will have to be careful because most of the words have minimal pairs. They will have to decide which word it is. For example if we say “ bread” but they mark “ brad” in their cards, it will be wrong.