5th Grade, Unit 3 Cities, pronunciation activities

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PRONUNCIATION PLAN

Unit: 3 / Cities

Grade: 5

Vocabulary Points: hotel, restaurant, museum, shopping center, zoo, fire station, police station, stadium, post office

Materials: Flashcards, pictures

Activity 1: Story telling

Aims: 

          ·         To understand the story

          ·         To learn the correct pronunciations of vocabularies

Procedure: Teacher starts to tell a story. In this story there are all vocabularies which learned. While the teacher is telling the story, s/he puts the flashcards which are about the vocabularies on the board one by one. For example, while she is saying “One day Tony took a holiday with his parents. They stayed in a hotel.” she puts the hotel’s flashcard on the board. After she had finished the story, students repeat the vocabularies with correct pronunciation.

Story:

TONY’S HOLIDAY

One day Tony takes a holiday with his parents. They stay in a hotel. The hotel is next to the police station. They go out the hotel to tour the city. First they go to the zoo. The zoo is very big and Tony see a lot of animals in there. Then they go to the city museum. He sees the old artifacts and some dinosaur bones. They are very impressive. After the museum tour, they go to the restaurant to eat lunch. The restaurant is across the fire station. Tony can see red fire trucks while he is eating his lunch. Tony and his parents finish their meals then they go to the shopping center. They buy new clothes and some souvenirs both for themselves and their friends. While they are going out the shopping center, Tony’s father makes a surprise for Tony. He shows two tickets for football match in the stadium. Tony’s mother returns the hotel and Tony and his father go to the stadium to watch the match.

Activity 2: Spelling and matching

Aims:

        ·         To spell vocabularies correctly

        ·         To unite the syllables correctly

        ·         To match vocabularies with pictures

Procedure: Teacher divides the board into two. She puts the pictures of vocabularies in one side of the board and she puts the spell of the vocabularies randomly. The students try to unite the spells according to pictures of the vocabularies. After they unite the vocabularies, they try to say correct pronunciation of the vocabularies.

Activity 3: Silent words

Aims:

        ·         To understand words from mouth movements

        ·         To be aware of mouth positions for English sounds

Procedure: Teacher puts the word cards on the board. S/he says the words silently and students try to guess which word the teacher said according to her/his mouth motivations.