Information collection & exchange

about fertilizers. The same person is then responsible for sharing this information with the others 
in the group. The person assigned the number 3 could do the same
beekeeping, and so forth. 
Basically, maintaining the balance between cooperation and competition m
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 Pronunciation 
In the Direct Method and the Audio-lingual Method, discussed in Chapter Two, a great deal of attention is 
given to achieving native-like pronunciation. This attention takes the form of drills such as minimal pairs. (For 
example, "ship" - "sheep," "hit" - "heat," etc.) 
Communicative language teaching, on the other hand, places more emphasis on being understood, rather 
than being taken for a native speaker of English. This has implications for your classroom. Your ultimate 
goal has a strong communicative bias, and your pronunciation teaching will be integrated with the rest of 
your English teaching. This can be done by presen
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1. Identify the areas in which your students are having difficulty in being understood. You will be listening 
for problems with vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation. 
2. Find or write sentences that have a number of natural occurrences of the problem sounds. 
3. Develop communicative tasks that incorporate the words.
simply correct pronunciation problems as and 
hen they occur, you may end up spending time correcting features which are not crucial for intelligibility. 
hese on-the-spot repairs are being systematically absorbed by your 
tudents. You begin work on identifying problem areas by keeping notes, which you will later use as a basis 
der to show strong 
ontrast, with the relevant word or phrase moved to the beginning of the sentence. As a result, Arabic 
ve difficulty with the use of stress to show contrast. And Thai speakers may have 
ifficulty in forming final consonant clusters. The consonants most often deleted are /r, 1, t/ and /d/, so that 
es at your disposal. Listen to yourself or other Volunteers talking.