Speaking skills,
focus on
pronunciation
Grammar
Intonation in connected
speech
Grammar
Rooms – revision
Pronunciation
Checklist
I live in a house.
Contents
Aims
Year 2
Lesson 47
1 master
handout for each
student focusing
on increasing
students’
awareness of
syllables in
words
Language Analysis
Connected speech is important for English, the faster English people speak, the more
words they connect and sound more natural. For fluency reasons, they simplify and link
words together, and sometimes a single sound, i.e.phoneme, is lost (weak forms e.g. fish
and chips – the words and is pronounced as n only). English is one of the languages in
which what you can see on paper does not have to be exactly the same as what you can
hear.
In this lesson we teach students to focus on the stressed syllables – the ones that never
get lost in connected speech, are never reduced.
Words consist of syllables, e.g. the word computer consists of three syllables, and only the
second one is stressed: computer – it should therefore be pronounced more loudly.
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Procedure
Warm-up Off the screens
1.
Revise the words flat and house, you may use the board and your drawings to
explain the difference.
2.
Draw a big and a small house on the board, elicit the words small and big.
3.
Practise the words bedroom and bathroom (focus on pronunciation).
Screen 2
Robot: Where do you live? Do you live
in a flat?
Spaceman: Oh no, I don’t live in a flat!
I live in a house!
Robot: How many bedrooms has it got?
Spaceman: It’s got one bathroom!
Robot: No ... no, not bathrooms! How
many bedrooms has it got?
Spaceman: Oh! It’s got two bedrooms.
And it’s got a garden.
Robot: It’s got a small garden?
Spaceman: No ... It’s got a big garden!
Wait!
Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe
what they can see. This will help students with
pronunciation and meaning.
After watching the animation ask
comprehension questions:
Does the spaceman live in a house or flat?
House.
How many bathroom has it got? One.
How many bedrooms has it got? Two.
Has it got a small garden. No, it’s got a big
garden.
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Screen 3
Audio 1:
Where do you live?
Audio 2:
I live in a house.
Audio 3:
It’s got two bedrooms
Audio 4:
It’s got a garden.
Audio 5:
It’s got a big garden
Key:
14
25
34
44
55
Students listen and count how many words in
the sentences. This is to prepare them for the
next activity, which focuses on the number of
stressed syllables.
Pre-teach that contractions count as one word.
e.g. It’s …
Students could do this just by listening – teacher
can demonstrate in the class, getting students to
count words on their fingers.
Screen 4
Audio:
Where do you live?
I live in a house.
It’s got two bedrooms.
It’s got a garden.
It’s got a big garden.
Key: 1 Where, live 2 live, house 3 two
bedrooms 4 garden 5 big
(the underlined syllables are stressed)
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Pre-teach that a word can have more than one
syllable – count out a few examples on fingers:
e.g. house (1) gar-den (2) or ask students to
clap their hands while counting. Give a few
more words as a sample.
Students should become aware of the
difference between words and syllables so the
number of syllables is different from the number
of words in Screen 3.
Screen 5
Lucy: How many bathrooms has it got?
Ms Black: I live in a flat.
Queen: It’s got eight bedrooms.
Alex: It hasn’t got a small garden.
Key:
1 flat 2 eight 3 hasn’t, small
Screen 6
Robot: Where do you live? Do you live
in a flat?
Spaceman: Oh no, I don’t live in a flat!
I live in a house!
Robot: How many bedrooms has it got?
Spaceman: It’s got one bathroom!
Robot: No ... no, not bathrooms! How
many bedrooms has it got?
Spaceman: Oh! It’s got two bedrooms.
And it’s got a garden.
Robot: It’s got a small garden?
Spaceman: No ... It’s got a big garden!
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Give the Ss these instructions for the ‘Listen
and say’ activity. The aim is to practise a short
natural dialogue.
1.
Look at the animation, the stressed
words appear during the animation.
2.
Repeat as many times as you want to.
Now it’s your turn. This is a ‘free practice’ stage.
The aim is personalisation.
Tell students to act out the dialogue.
Make sure students practise stressing different
words in sentences and saying them with
connected speech.
Additional activity
Give out the Handout, ask students to write the number of syllables that the word
has.
Key: bedroom – 2, bathroom – 2, garden – 2, house – 1, big – 1, small – 1, computer – 3,
green – 1, yellow – 2, mother – 2, shoulder – 2, mouth – 1, beautiful – 3, nose – 1,
grandfather – 3.
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Handout
bedroom ____
yellow ____
bathroom ____
mother ____
garden ____
shoulder ____
house ____
mouth ____
big ____
beautiful ____
small ____
nose ____
computer ____
grandfather ____
green ____
Handout
bedroom ____
yellow ____
bathroom ____
mother ____
garden ____
shoulder ____
house ____
mouth ____
big ____
beautiful ____
small ____
nose ____
computer ____
grandfather ____
green ____
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