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PRONUNCIATION TEACHING

Grade 4

Unit 8 My Weekly Schedule

Vocabularies: Art, Music, Maths, History, Computer, Chess, Physical Education, English

Presentation:

Activities:
Showing related vocabularies such as art, music etc through flashcards

Aim:  
Aim of this activity is to raise students’ pronunciation awareness. By using colorful flashcards which have the pictures and written forms of vocabularies, vocabularies and their pronunciations will be presented. 

Materials: Flashcards

Procedure: 
*Teacher sticks the flashcards which have the pictures of words on the board and pronounces them
*Teacher sticks the flashcards which have the written form of words on the board and pronounces them. 
* Teacher asks students to repeat pronunciation of words after him or her

Practice:

Activities: Guessing the words

Aim:
 Aim of this activity is to make students practice pronunciations of each vocabulary as this activity allows students to use more than one word thorough prediction. Moreover, this activity allows students to work collaboratively as there is interaction between students

Materials: Vocabulary cards and a box

Procedure: 
* Teacher divides students in three groups
* Teacher puts the vocabulary cards in the box
* Teacher picks up a card but he/she doesn’t show it to students 
* Groups, one by one, are asked to predict the vocabulary that teacher picked up by using as much as vocabulary they can use
*The group that predicts the vocabulary correctly takes a plus. However, they have to pronounce it correctly.

Production:

Activity: Writing a song

Aim: Aim of this activity is to make students be able to use the correct pronunciation in a effective way. Thanks to this activity students can discover their own ways of learning. They can use this activity for other units, as well.

Material: -

Procedure:  
* Students will be asked to be in groups
* Groups are asked to write their own songs by using the vocabularies with correct pronunciation. The vocabularies they will use are Maths, Science, English, etc.
* After they create their own songs, they will be asked to perform it in front of the class
* Students will decide which song is the best.

REFERENCES:

*Kahraman, Ayşe and Bahattin (2012) English 4.Grades, Semih Ofset-S.E.K Press

*Cameron, Lynne (2001) Teaching Language to Young Learners/ Learning     Pronunciation, Cambridge University Press

* The Practice of English Language Teaching / Jeremy Harmer