Oral, writing and pronunciation development

Professor Leila Maxwell worked with Practical Pronunciation, Writing and Communication Activities. According to her, and with my agreement, 'Communication involves a lot of orality'.
It also envolves speaking and writing.

Continuing working on pronunciation, the lesson today is presenting:

1- Development of the past tense of regular verbs (--ed), classifying them into groups according to the pronunciation.

2- Practice of some sentences aloud.

3- More work on final pronunciation /s/, /z/ our /IZ/.

4- Work on phonemic symbols and signs.

Date: June, 2008

Teacher's name: Norma F. Cunha

Grade level: False begginers

Title of lesson: Voiced and unvoiced sounds

Past of regular verbs (___ed)

1. Classify these verbs into three groups according to the pronunciation of their __ed termination.

Stop live depend want work

Stay need seem laugh decide

form mary start learn watch

wish pack beg hope kiss

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/d/ /t/ /id/

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2. Now say these sentences aloud:

a- He started recording albums in 1987 and stopped 4 years later.

b- I worked until 8 o'clock last night.

c- The way she looked at me, I wished I hadn't come.

d- I liked it but Pat was bored.

e - We visited a temple, relaxed in a park and watched a parade in Lima yesterday.

3. Do you pronounce these words with a final /s/, /z/ or /iz/?

1- buses 6- clothes 11- webs

2- computers 7- months 12- caps

3- songs 8- halves 13- tables

4- pens 9- days 14- churches

5- dishes 10- doors 15 - packs

4. Write out the following dialogue with normal English spelling and punctuation using the list of phonemic symbols and signs. The first seven words are provided for you.

Mother: There's a postcard for you here...................................................................................................

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From Marcelo Baccarin's lectures - CEELT II - UCLES