Pronunciation Games

by Mark Hancock

• ISBN13: 9780521467353
• ISBN10: 0521467357
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 1996-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Pronunciation Games is a teacher's resource book containing photocopiable pronunciation games for use in the classroom. Each unit contains an enjoyable activity designed to raise learners' awareness of an aspect of English pronunciation. The activities are suitable for use with a wide range of levels and focus on pronunciation points ranging from individual sounds and word stress to sentence stress and intonation. The Teacher's Pages provide clear instructions for conducting each game, background information and suggestions for adapting the games to the needs of particular groups of learners.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

How to use this book

Key to phonetic symbols

Glossary of phonological terms

Games: key types and associated vocabulary

SECTION A SYLLABLES AND STRESS A1 Making tracks

A2 Stress moves

A3 Syllable soup

A4 Cluster busters

A5 Stress snap

A6 Stress dice

A7 Stepping stones

A8 Chinese chequers

A9 Happy families

A10 Stress maze

SECTION B SOUND AWARENESS B1 Hidden names

B2 Find the Rule

B3 Pronunciation journey

B4 Four-sided dominoes

B5 Sound pictures

B6 Win a word

B7 Two-vowel jigsaws

B8 Ludo

B9 Simple sound mazes

B10 Complex sound mazes

B11 Battleships

B12 Join the dots

B13 Sound dice

B14 Phonetic crosswords

B15 Bingo

B16 Phonetic code

SECTION C CONNECTED SPEECH C1 Link maze

C2 Dictation computer

C3 A language called da-da

C4 Rhythm dominoes

C5 Fishing

C6 Compound clues

C7 Contradict me

C8 Don't tell me

C9 Intonation monopoly

C10 Intonation directions