Title of the class: English phonetics
Age of students: 16-18 (first year of studying)
General topic of the unit that is being studied: assimilation
Topic of the class: progressive, regressive and reciprocal assimilation
Goals of the class:
Practical: distinguish between different kinds of assimilation.
Educative: tolerance, ability to work in pairs.
Practical: distinguish between different kinds of assimilation.
Educative: tolerance, ability to work in pairs.
Goals of the activity:
Training and practicing students' skills in speaking.
Description of the activity:
1. Beginning of the class:
Warm-up activity: Teacher shows
students the video with tongue twisters and they try to repeat first 5 of them.
Checking the home assignment: We have finished a topic «transcription signs»
and students were supposed to transcribe the text teacher gave them. Teacher
receives papers with home tasks. Also they had to write 10 sentences using
sounds ð and θ. Teacher proposes check them one by one.
2. The main part.
1. Introduction of the new topic:
The teacher explains the difference between
progressive, regressive and reciprocal assimilation providing examples.
2. Students listen
to the recording (1 minute) and than write down the text. They make a transcription
of this short text and mark in what words the assimilation is.
3. Now students
make up dialogs in pairs and give dialogs to neighbors. They will find words
with assimilation.
4. Closing and home-task.
The home task is to
write down the dialog from the recording I’ll send students and make a
transcription. Then students find out where the assimilation is. I’ll give them
the list of the words. What kind of assimilation is used there?
