tailieunhanh - English pronunciation made simple part 41

Read all directions carefully before beginning. When you finish a test, check your answers in Appendix II, If you have difficulty with an exercise, return to the beginning of the lesson and repeat the activities in More Practice. The dialogues and paragraphs are the most difficult activities in each lesson. Review them often as you progress through the book. | dictionary to find as many words with the target sound as possible. Example for target sound 1 Large Larry listened as Laura lectured loudly or Lovely ladies love lovely lacy lingerie. Objective To increase students ability to correctly pronounce past tense and plural endings. Activity 1 Play a question-and-answer game using regular present and past tense verbs. Ask one student to respond in a complete sentence to your question then ask a yes no question of another student. The next student must respond to the question pronouncing the verb correctly in the past tense and ask a question of his or her own. Example When did you stop smoking I stopped smoking last year Did you wash your car today No I washed it yesterday. Activity 2 Present a variety of 3-verb series aloud. One past tense verb in each series should have a different -ed sound than the other two. Ask the students to identify the verb with the different ed sound. Example You say baked cleaned cooked the students select cleaned. Activity 3 Ask students to prepare a two- to three-minute talk about a personal experience they have had as an adult or child. Encourage them to relate their experiences in a conversational manner and to use as many past tense verbs as possible. Ask the listeners to make a list of all the regular past tense verbs used by each speaker. After each presentation ask for a volunteer to read his or her list aloud being careful to pronounce the -ed endings of the past tense verbs correctly. Examples of possible experiences An Embarrassing Moment A Scary Experience My First Pet My First Car My Most Memorable Birthday A Sad Experience A Happy Experience The Time I Was Lost My First Airplane Trip An Exciting Experience Activity 4 Play a bragging game using various noun categories such as vehicles foods items of clothing types of footware school supplies items of furniture. Example One student asks What types of vehicles do you have The second student responds I have three cars two boats and