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Lesson Plan: Pronunciation
                                         Your Name: Andrew Hill
                                       Students Pseudonym: Carlie
    Objective(s):
           Student will be able to identify and correctly enunciate /u/ and // minimal pairs.
    Material(s):
           Worksheet: Minimal Pair Bingo
           Website: Phonetics, The sounds of American English
           Other: Poster paper and markers
    Time:             Lesson Activity Sequence                                 Materials
    10 minutes        Warm Up: Minimal Pair Bingo                              Worksheet:
                               Greet student.                                 Minimal
                               Distribute Minimal Pair Bingo worksheet      Pair
                               Instruct student to select and write down 24   Bingo
                                of the worksheets words in the given boxes.   (Appx. 1)
                                As tutor says a word, student marks an X
                                on that word. When student marks four in a
                                row they yell Bingo!
    10 minutes        Discussion and Instruction: Minimal Pairs  /u/          Website:
                      and //                                                  Phonetics, The
                               Show Phonetics websites /u/ mouth             sounds of
                                positioning explanation                        American
                               Practice making shape with students            English
                               Show Phonetics websites // mouth             (Appx. 2 and 3)
                                positioning explanation
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                       Practice making shape with students
    10 minutes   Activity: Telephone Numbers
                       Write /u/ and // minimal pairs on the left
                        half of the board as follows:
                 (1) Pool (2) Pull (3) Stewed (4) Stood
                 (5) Luke (6) Look (7) Pooling (8) Pulling
                 (9) Suit (0) Rule
                       Tell students they must share their phone
                        number by saying the correct corresponding
                        numbers. Teacher will write the number on
                        the boards right half.
                       Afterward, write a new minimal pair list on
                        the board:
                    (1) Cooky (2) Cookie (3) Luke (4) Look
                    (5) Suit (6) Soot (7) Pool (8) Pull
                    (9) Stewed (0) Stood
                       Tell student you will now give your
                        telephone number by saying the
                        corresponding words. The student must
                        come to the board, as you speak, and write
                        down the correct corresponding numbers.
                        ("English Current")
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    5 minutes    Wrap Up:                                             Other:
                       Tell students they will draw what they        Poster
                        learned using only pictures, no words. They   and
                        can use butcher paper and markers.            Markers
    Assessment   Informal assessment during activity.
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                                             Appendix 1
                                          Minimal Pair Bingo
Name: __________
Directions: Choose 24 of the 30 words. Write them into the empty spaces below. If the teacher
reads a word you chose, put an X over that word and box. If you get five in a row (upward,
downward, or diagonally) yell Bingo!
    Alive     Correct   Belly    Rather     Stage    Ways      Rage     Stood    Boot     Fool
    Arrive     Lace     Berry    Siege      Stays    Forge     Raise    Pools   Choose   Kooky
    Collect    Race     Lather   Seize      Wage     Fours     Stewed   Pulls    Cool    Cookie
                                                FREE
                                            (Teacher, 2013)
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                    Appendix 2
            Minimal Pair Pronunciation
    ("Phonetics: The sounds of American English")
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                    Appendix 2
            Minimal Pair Pronunciation
    ("Phonetics: The sounds of American English")
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                                        Works Cited
(n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2016, from
http://www.englishcurrent.com/pronunciation/pronunciation-lesson-plan-activity-esl/
Phonetics: The sounds of American English. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2016, from
http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html
Teacher, M. (2013). Minimal Pairs for Spanish Speakers. Retrieved December 11, 2016, from
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Minimal-Pairs-for-Spanish-Speakers-861619