Blitxll
New member
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2020
- Member Type
- Teacher (Other)
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- Canada
- Current Location
- China
I am a new teacher and have a full schedule of classes (17, 45min classes a week). All of which are devoted to speaking North American English. There is no curriculum to speak of my only guidance is the requirements of the IELTS.
-When dealing with pronunciation exercises how long should you spend on a certain sound?
-Is it better to go through a variety of similar sounds like /s/,/z/, the "th" sound in thanks? Then have the students keep producing the sounds until your confident they've learned it?
-Would it be better to break up the sound exercises with stress and intonation?
-As for exercises I find it challenging to find anything for Pronunciation. I am scouring the internet but because of lack of time I feel like I might be missing something.
I'm just a little overwhelmed at the moment and I would just like to get some perspective on this. Currently im doing minimal pairs of "trouble" sounds in Mandarin like the 'th' the 'e' vowel sounds and the 'o' vowel sounds. my exercises have consisted mostly class repetition, sound mazes, and another activity that works like an information gap. I really don't want to bore the kids to death but with this many classes and having pure focus on speaking I feel that I have to be teaching pronunciation everyday.
(sorry about the lack of IPA symbols, I'll figure that out later)
Any Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your time.
Blitxll
-When dealing with pronunciation exercises how long should you spend on a certain sound?
-Is it better to go through a variety of similar sounds like /s/,/z/, the "th" sound in thanks? Then have the students keep producing the sounds until your confident they've learned it?
-Would it be better to break up the sound exercises with stress and intonation?
-As for exercises I find it challenging to find anything for Pronunciation. I am scouring the internet but because of lack of time I feel like I might be missing something.
I'm just a little overwhelmed at the moment and I would just like to get some perspective on this. Currently im doing minimal pairs of "trouble" sounds in Mandarin like the 'th' the 'e' vowel sounds and the 'o' vowel sounds. my exercises have consisted mostly class repetition, sound mazes, and another activity that works like an information gap. I really don't want to bore the kids to death but with this many classes and having pure focus on speaking I feel that I have to be teaching pronunciation everyday.
(sorry about the lack of IPA symbols, I'll figure that out later)
Any Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your time.
Blitxll