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Studying Pronunciation Is A Waste of Time: Teaching Suggestions and Answers

The document provides teaching suggestions for four classroom activities, including putting students into groups to discuss questions, encouraging students to post opinions online to promote discussion, and having students watch English films at home.

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Studying Pronunciation Is A Waste of Time: Teaching Suggestions and Answers

The document provides teaching suggestions for four classroom activities, including putting students into groups to discuss questions, encouraging students to post opinions online to promote discussion, and having students watch English films at home.

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Studying Pronunciation is a Waste of Time

Teaching Suggestions and Answers


TEFL.NET/EnglishClub.com copyright Liz Regan 2003 page 1 of 2

Activity 1 and Activity 2 TEFL.NET/EnglishClub.com

1. Put the students into pairs or small groups .


2. Get a student to read the instructions out loud and check that they are
clear.
3. Give the students time to read all the questions and underline any words
they don’t know.
4. Explain the words they don’t know, or ask if any other student can
explain the unfamiliar word(s) to the class.
5. Let the students begin their conversation, speaking together in English .
6. Monitor .
7. Stop the activity .
8. Do some error correction .
9. Consolidate pronunciation (!).

Activity 3 TEFL.NET/EnglishClub.com

Netiquette: Encourage students to change the default subject line


once they have written their post.

PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE


TO INDICATE THE OPINION/S IN THE POST BECAUSE
IN A BUSY THREAD IT HELPS PEOPLE TO DECIDE
WHICH POSTS TO READ!

1. Go to http://forum.englishclub.com/projects/ and post thought-


provoking and controversial opinions there to promote lively discussion.
(The opinions need not be your own!)
2. You could disguise yourself as a student from outside the group and
respond to your students’ posts to provoke reactions and encourage
further discussion.
3. You could print out students’ posts and use them in class for error
correction purposes.

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Teaching Suggestions and Answers
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Activity 3 (continued) TEFL.NET/EnglishClub.com

4. In the next lesson have an open class discussion based on the


students’ opinions (for example: Has anyone changed their mind?) and
their experiences on the Forum (for example: How useful did the students
find the Forum? Do they prefer spoken or written discussion? Is it easier
to have a spoken discussion as a result of participating in the Forum?)
5. Consider joint projects for future discussions of Talking Points on the
Forum (school to school, country to country).

Activity 4 TEFL.NET/EnglishClub.com

Watching films in English: This is a follow-up activity for the students to do at


home.
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