Examples of Activities
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works I Academic Year: 1st Year- 1st Semester
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html
CHAPTER 5- PERFORMANCE EXCERCISES. Compare AmE and BrE
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-trans.htm
Click on The International Phonetic Alphabet link
Then click on demonstration of the phonetic transcription system. Be ready to listen to the audio file given in this section. Practice as many times as necessary to associate symbol to sound.
Meaningful Content for Practice
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works I, II or III
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Go to Section titled General Listening Quizzes. Once there, select two audio texts to work with. Texts should be of different level of complexity. Once both texts have been chosen, follow instructions to perform the quiz for each. Finally, choose one of the two texts to print out all the completed activities. A 50-word summary should be done on the other selected text.
Theory Based tasks
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works I, II Academic Year: 1st, 2nd Year- 1st Semester
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/
Click on Activities & Exercises. When there, click on "listen to word endings" mini-exercise, and do the exercise on that page. Finally, type or write the words from the excercise in PHONETIC CHARACTERS
Integrating Content and Practice
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works II Academic Year: 2nd Year- 1st Semester
http://esl.about.com/od/speakingadvanced/a/timestress.htm
Read the front page and then answer the following question
What can be concluded after analyzing the two examples with different syllable numbers?
Then go to Stress and Intonation Exercises section and do Pronunciation Exercise 1 or Pronunciation Exercise 2 and the task on The Music of English
Examples of Interactive Activities
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works II Academic Year: 2nd Year- 2nd Semester
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-1/exercise-english-674.php
Watch the video. Write down 3 examples given in it to demonstrate the different effects of intonation
Then do “English exercise "Intonation: rising or falling?"
Print out the page that shows the results of your performance exercise
Integrating Other Content Areas
Course: Phonetics, Diction and Lab Works III Academic Year: 3rd Year- 1st Semester
http://www.phoenix5.org/humor/HumorMenu.html
When there, click on Abbott & Costello's "Who's on first?" link, the third in the list titled HUMOR & LAUGHTER. Click on READ A TRANSCRIPT
After reading the transcript, go back to the previous page, or click on the link on top that says A link to an audio file is available. Listen to Abbott & Costello's "Who's on first?" and then answer questions given in essay format
What is the purpose of this activity in this class?
Is this a humorous script, in your opinion? Why (not)?
What type of words – from the Phonetics point of view- are being used in this routine?
You may want to read a bit about baseball game, if it is unfamiliar to you. And perhaps a little on Abbott & Costello, as well…
The listening can be done in group/s. Then you can do the writing on your own
Styles and varieties of Speech
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/old_IViE/#spe
This will take you to the IViE corpus webapge.
Select Download IViE corpus in the navigation chart on the left bar. There, you will be asked to register in order to be able to download the audio files.
Based on the audio files in the next page link, the following activities are suggested to students:
Choose 5 dialects to work with. From all the types of text listed in each, choose one listening activity from each dialect
Write the ordinary spelling for one of the passages /texts you chose.
Then, write down comments on your listening, focusing on the following: How easy/ difficult was it for you to understand the passages spoken? Would you use this text/s with an EFL class? If so, what level? If not, why? Devise an activity for a target audience in which an extract from this website is included.
Miscellanous for the teacher and students, too…
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/
Click on the link Pronunciation. Plenty of ideas and activities on helping your students with their pronunciation are given in this section, which may be used as class material or adapted to your own needs.
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Select a passage based on the difficulty level. Then perform all activities as many times as necessary.
