The poem of Roald Dahl is cut to practice listening and gap filling. Each gap has several options to choose from. You can find the audio here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7428Later you can use it as text.
The poem of Roald Dahl is cut to practice listening and gap filling. Each gap has several options to choose from. You can find the audio here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7428Later you can use it as text.
After vacation, let your students have fun in class with this game!Play domino and review some homonyms at the same time.Each of the words has been carefully chosen, so that there is variety in the sounds reviewed. The trick of this game is that instea ...
It is a very funny activity which I used to finish the course. It is a poem with homophones and students need to find a correct variant understanding the meaning. It is better to complete this activity in pairs in order to give learners time to discuss ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading.Here's one: the group 'ight' = pronounced /ait/ . Only the first and the last letter of the group are actually pronounced (i and t)Explain to stu ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading.Here's one: the group 'oo' = pronounced /u/ . Explain to students this rule and give them examples (afternoon,cook,look,foot).Tell them it doesn't ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading.Here are some: the group 'oo' = pronounced /u the group 'ee' =pronounced /i/ the group 'ea' =pronounced /i/, as well, ...a.o.Students will be impr ...
An exercise for pronunciation - recognizing /æ/ sound in words (the worksheet is based on American pronunciation). Students have to find their way out of the maze, finding words with /æ/ sound. A good way to finish teaching English vowel so ...
Spelling in English can be problematic! Here is a chart with the common words containing 'ough' and how to pronounce them.I keep this on the classroom wall for students to peruse at leisure. It could be used as part of a pronounciation lesson to show t ...
It's rather difficult for students to acquire perfection in English spelling and pronunciation .So it's important to connect spelling to pronunciation by studying them together. The chart presented here helps to generalize the spelling of words having ...
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The worksheet presents four types of English syllable: open, close, vowel+r and vowel +re. It is described in a table with transcription and examples. It's good for every level to explain the first phonetic rules. It was originally created for Russian- ...
Students will cut homophone words and paste them under a clipart picture to show their meanings. This will help them learn different meanings of homophones. This activity is followed by a multiple choice exercise of 10 sentences to further practice the ...
Students will cut homophone words and paste them under a clipart picture to show their meanings. This will help them learn different meanings of homophones. This activity is followed by a multiple choice exercise of 10 sentences to further practice the ...
Students listen to the song: "Friends will be friends" and correct the lyrics. After that, they sing along and then discuss the importance of Friendship in groups.There is also an opportunity to explore homophone pairs, although I haven't done that.
A maze of various words. Students need to connect the words with the /oy/ sound. This helps practice the different pronunciation for words like boing and doing. Good for speaking pair work and variety of vocabulary. Sheet can be easilty edited for diff ...
In this sheet students get homophone practice (they read a detective story and then correct some words which do not make any sense, substituting them by the correct homophone). The worksheet contains a key to make correction easier.
I've prepared this worksheet to practise phonetic symbols with my students. The song is up-to-date so I think they may like it. And they love to guess the words from the pronunciation - they have to fill the gaps with words according to the symbols. It ...
This worksheet provides the students with the most common correspondances between the pronunciation in English of certain sounds and the different possible groups of letters that are used for their written representation. It can be used as a reference ...
A worksheet on the use of English prepositions and homophones. There are three different exercises based on the lyrics of this beautiful song, rated number 4 in the Best Irish Single Ever Poll: fill in the gaps, choose the correct word between two ho ...
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In this worksheet, students can listen to the Eagles song and complete the gaps by distinguishing words that share certain phonemes, such as vowels and consonants, and word stress in others. A fun activity that you can do at any level and with either t ...
Some of you will prefer to let students listen once first, others may find different ways of doing it depending on the level of the students. I would suggest playing the video / song verse by verse.Areas worked; pronunciation, homophones, phrasal verb ...