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Lesson Plan: Pronunciation

Your Name: Andrew Hill
Students Pseudonym: Carlie

Objective(s):
Student will be able to identify and correctly enunciate /u/ and // minimal pairs.

Material(s):
Worksheet: Minimal Pair Bingo
Website: Phonetics, The sounds of American English
Other: Poster paper and markers

Time: Lesson Activity Sequence Materials

10 minutes Warm Up: Minimal Pair Bingo Worksheet:

Greet student. Minimal
Distribute Minimal Pair Bingo worksheet Pair
Instruct student to select and write down 24 Bingo
of the worksheets words in the given boxes. (Appx. 1)
As tutor says a word, student marks an X
on that word. When student marks four in a
row they yell Bingo!

10 minutes Discussion and Instruction: Minimal Pairs /u/ Website:

and // Phonetics, The
Show Phonetics websites /u/ mouth sounds of
positioning explanation American

Practice making shape with students English

Show Phonetics websites // mouth (Appx. 2 and 3)

positioning explanation
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Practice making shape with students

10 minutes Activity: Telephone Numbers

Write /u/ and // minimal pairs on the left
half of the board as follows:

(1) Pool (2) Pull (3) Stewed (4) Stood

(5) Luke (6) Look (7) Pooling (8) Pulling
(9) Suit (0) Rule

Tell students they must share their phone

number by saying the correct corresponding
numbers. Teacher will write the number on
the boards right half.
Afterward, write a new minimal pair list on
the board:

(1) Cooky (2) Cookie (3) Luke (4) Look

(5) Suit (6) Soot (7) Pool (8) Pull
(9) Stewed (0) Stood

Tell student you will now give your

telephone number by saying the
corresponding words. The student must
come to the board, as you speak, and write
down the correct corresponding numbers.
("English Current")
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5 minutes Wrap Up: Other:

Tell students they will draw what they Poster
learned using only pictures, no words. They and
can use butcher paper and markers. Markers

Assessment Informal assessment during activity.

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Appendix 1
Minimal Pair Bingo
Name: __________

Directions: Choose 24 of the 30 words. Write them into the empty spaces below. If the teacher
reads a word you chose, put an X over that word and box. If you get five in a row (upward,
downward, or diagonally) yell Bingo!

Alive Correct Belly Rather Stage Ways Rage Stood Boot Fool
Arrive Lace Berry Siege Stays Forge Raise Pools Choose Kooky
Collect Race Lather Seize Wage Fours Stewed Pulls Cool Cookie

FREE

(Teacher, 2013)
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Appendix 2
Minimal Pair Pronunciation

("Phonetics: The sounds of American English")

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Appendix 2
Minimal Pair Pronunciation

("Phonetics: The sounds of American English")

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Works Cited

(n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2016, from

http://www.englishcurrent.com/pronunciation/pronunciation-lesson-plan-activity-esl/

Phonetics: The sounds of American English. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2016, from
http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html

Teacher, M. (2013). Minimal Pairs for Spanish Speakers. Retrieved December 11, 2016, from
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Minimal-Pairs-for-Spanish-Speakers-861619