Summary
After completing the lesson, students will be able to:
- Recognize English sounds
- Identify word stress and stress in sentences
- Understand intonation in sentences
- Use English sounds and proper intonation correctly
- Read texts aloud with correct pronunciation, stress, and intonation
A poem titled "The Chaos" illustrates the complexities of English pronunciation. Students are advised to practice pronunciation with tricky spellings such as "heard," "meat," and "moth." Activities include:
- Underlining words in the poem that share letter combinations but have different pronunciations.
- Identifying words that rhyme with "alive," "five," and "write."
- Filling in the blanks in sentences using specified words.
- Reading aloud the sentences provided with careful attention to vowel sounds.
After completing the lesson students will be able to
- recognize english sounds
- recognize word stress and stress on words in sentences
- recognize intonation in sentences
- use English sounds appropriately
- use proper intonation in sentences
- read aloud texts with proper pronunciation, stress and intonation,
A. Read the following poem out loud. Be careful about how you pronounce each word, as the spellings and sounds can be quite tricky!
The Chaos
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: It's said like bed, not bead __
For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat...
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, nor broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose__
Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
A dreadful language? Why, sakes alive!
I'd learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet, to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.
A1 Underline the words in the poem which have the same letter combinations in their spelling, but different pronunciation. Practice saying them with a friend.
A2 The words "alive", "five", and "write" from the poem have the same vowel sound. Now, read and listen to some other words that have the same sound as these.
A3 Read the sentences below and choose the right words from the list of words in the box to fill in the blanks.
nine | time | fine | five | ride | side | bicycle | night | tide | rise |
Mike is a ____ young accountant. He works from _____ to _____ in a government office. In his free _____ he loves to _____ his _____ along the sea _____ He often comes to the sea beach at _____ He loves to watch the moon ______ in the sky and the ______ come in.
A4 Read the sentences in the passage above loudly. Pay careful attention to the vowel sounds.
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