suggestions

[post-student]

hi
i'm teaching conversation/listening course this summer & I need some suggestions on how to improve my students' language skills!! your cooperation is highly appreciated.

[xpert]

These sites are wonderful

How to Improve Conversation Skills

Conversation Skills

You can teach them (1) vowel musicality through minimal pairs and sets

minimal pairs: set - pet / big - pig / pin - bin / ferry - very

minimal sets: feel - fell - fall - fuel - fool - fill - foal - full - file - foul
boot - but - beet - bout - bat - bit - bite - bet - boat

(2) word/sentence stress: present -v present -n

(3) intonation (rising/faling) ..etc


Wish you all the best

[Heads Up English]

Hi post-student,

Good luck with the classes. What level of students will you teach? Will it be more conversation focused, or will you primarily deal with pronunciation?

I've written an article on speaking, which you can find here:

Speaking English Well

You may also want to check out the following sites. The first I stumbled across last week, and it has with a list of discussion activities. The second has a lot of useful articles and ideas.

Discussion Techniques
ELT Notebook

Best of luck!

Chris Cotter
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